Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The members on my right will cease interjecting. They will cease pointing and interjecting. I am going to address the point of order. Certainly, the question, at the very beginning, referred to the bill. It also referred to a budget from a couple of years ago and a range of other matters. The Prime Minister is entitled to have a preamble and to compare and contrast. Whilst the very first part of the question was specific, the rest was rather broad, but I am sure that the Prime Minister will address the other aspects that were raised in the question. But it was fairly broad to begin with and it took the whole 30 seconds referring to the budget. I will hear the Prime Minister and I will keep listening very carefully to ensure that he is relevant to the question.

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