Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Gorton does not need to interject additions to the Manager of Opposition Business's point of order.

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And I do not need interjections on my right either. As I said—the Prime Minister will just resume his seat for a second—I am not going to keep restating what I have said in answer to questions remaining on the policy topic and the ability for ministers to have a preamble. I am listening to the Prime Minister. I know that he has had a preamble. The question was on tax. But I would say to the Manager of Opposition Business, as calmly as I can: you will have noticed, in accordance with the practice—and it is a longstanding practice—there is a certain latitude for leaders. That is both leaders, and I allow that latitude with the Leader of the Opposition in some of the questions he has asked and, indeed, the length of his point of order where he has essentially restated a question. So the Prime Minister, I am sure, will be coming to the question of tax.

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