Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I have not called the Treasurer. I made the point with fair warning last week that it was not sufficient to ask a question—in this case, I believe, to deliberately ask a question—that is mostly out of order and then at the very end of the question seek to maintain the whole question is in order. In this case, when I rule out the pieces that are out of order, there is nothing to ask the Treasurer. Let me put it in more simple language: you cannot come along with a Holden badge and stick it on a Mazda and say it is a Holden. The question is out of order.

Honourable members interjecting—

Let me remind members interjecting on me that it is particularly serious.

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