House debates Questions without Notice

Education Funding

Tuesday, 18 March 2014 House of Representatives

Mr Tony Burke

Mr Tony Burke Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance

2:48 pm

Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. In the last parliament, the relevance rule was changed to 'direct relevance'. There has to be a meaning given to the insertion of the word 'direct'. The Prime Minister cannot in any way be seen as being directly relevant to the question he was asked.

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