Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I will not give the Prime Minister the call just yet. Members on my right will not interject. The member for Corangamite is now warned! Again, the member for Isaacs well knows, because of my previous rulings and earlier rulings that he has been listening to, that matters prior to a member becoming a member of parliament or indeed becoming a minister cannot be canvassed in question time and are out of order. The first part of that question refers to the Prime Minister's previous answer, but, from what I could hear—there were some interjections near the end and I was hoping to hear the member for Isaacs in the final few seconds—the only part that was in order was in reference to the Prime Minister's previous answer. The rest of the question was out of order. I will again say that the Prime Minister needs only to refer to the section relating to his previous answer, and I am cautioning the member for Isaacs along the lines of my ruling the other day with respect to the member for McMahon, with the bulk of the question being out of order, and if I consider it to be deliberately so I will not be allowing any part of the question. But on this occasion I will allow the first part of the question. The Prime Minister has the call.

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