Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Member for Hinkler, the reason I was not going to proceed at the time was correct. The Leader of the House does not need to see the document to determine whether or not he would accept it: that is not correct practice. The member for Hinkler is right in that. But I did hear the Leader of the House say no. If you did not, I apologise, but there was a large amount of noise at the time. From now on I will be insisting that members do come to the dispatch box and indicate whether they will or will not accept the document, but there is no requirement for the document to be sighted before that decision has been made.

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