Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Before I call the member for Goldstein—if members could cease interjecting—I'll say, just for the clarity of the House, that whilst it hasn't been a regular practice, certainly until recently, for questions to be regularly transferred, I will just flag that there's further guidance in Practice, later on in the chapter on question time, that does state:

It is in order for more than one Minister to answer a particular question without notice in the case of shared responsibility.

That was the point I was trying to find before, without detaining the House. The member for Goldstein.

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