House debates Questions without Notice

National Education Standards

Monday, 21 March 2011 House of Representatives

Harry Jenkins

Harry Jenkins Speaker

3:26 pm

The Prime Minister is aware that she has to be directly relevant. That is the standing order. It does not mean, and it cannot be interpreted as, a direct answer as the person who posed the question would believe. This answer is, I believe, sufficiently directly relevant to the question to go beyond the sort of relevance rule that we saw in the last parliament.

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