House debates Questions without Notice

Carbon Pricing

Wednesday, 6 July 2011 House of Representatives

Harry Jenkins

Harry Jenkins Speaker

2:57 pm

You might consider that he is defying, but I am simply absolutely trying to indicate the difficulties that the chair has under the present standing orders that allow questions that have this type of addition at the end. I will listen carefully, very carefully, to the way in which the minister relates his material directly, because that is the new standing order. Under the previous standing order, ministers from both sides of politics perfected ways of making a smidgen of relevance, but this has to be directly relevant. Therefore the preamble of the question is very important. The minister.

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