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

It is not a matter of interpretation. I am simply reading to you what Practice says. When debate is occurring, the call alternates between government and opposition, quite rightly. When government members are seeking the call, you have given preference to a government minister over a government backbencher. Those sorts of precedents are something that is quite—

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