Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order on direct relevance. The question referred to one form of taxation only, income tax, and challenged the Treasurer that it has gone up under this government. On direct relevance, under the rulings you have previously given, he can say a number of things about income tax, but that does not give him licence to go to every other form of tax other than the one he was asked about.

Honourable members interjecting—

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