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

If you have been neglecting to remind the House what the question before it is at different points and when you put that, that raises a completely different issue. It does not change the fact that the House is debating at this point. We are not in question time; we are in Consideration in Detail debating a matter, and the call should alternate. When the call goes to the government side, if you want to give the call to the member for Corangamite, so be it. But when it was the turn for the call to go to the government side, you repeatedly, across two ministers, gave the call to the minister. Having done that, the next call should go to the opposition.

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