Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

As I have said many times before, if the member for Warringah had simply asked that and only asked that, the Prime Minister would have been compelled to give a very specific answer. Unfortunately for her, she included a long preamble that made a number of statements about the subject matter, and that enables the Prime Minister to answer all aspects of what a member asks in their question and not confine him to the preferred aspect, which was the specific question at the end. The Prime Minister is in order.

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