Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

You can indulge in any thought crime you want, member for Indi. It was not for that purpose and, if it was for that purpose, there was sufficient brouhaha from your side to enable me to say that this is not a debate. Question time should be seen as one aspect of the way this House operates, and certainly—if I could be part of the commentariat—the questions that are being asked build up to at least the MPI if not some other aspect of House procedures. That is what question time should be about. The question was asked. The Prime Minister is responding. She should be listened to in silence.

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