Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! I thought the member for Mackellar might be interested in the response to the point of order, but she probably is not. If she has a problem with tangential relevance to the question her problem is in the practices of the House and perhaps she can engage in improving that, but that has been the precedent of this place. I would have thought, given this was a question about how the government was supporting mining communities and then went on to talk about the infrastructure fund in particular, that the minister was being relevant. I would also ask the member for Mackellar to refer to page 501 of House of Representatives Practice, which outlines a point made by the member for Barker yesterday that it is also regarded as disorderly to imitate the voice or manner of a member. I would ask that all members would realise that that has been the practice of this place.

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