House debates

Monday, 23 August 2021

Ministerial Arrangements

2:46 pm

Photo of Mr Tony BurkeMr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

on indulgence—Just in response to what the Prime Minister just raised: it sounds like video presence won't be used by ministers during question time. I respect that for today this has been organised and the moment will have gone, but, unless someone is unwell or prohibited from being able to participate, ministers should be available for questions. We have video presence available. There will be some who, because of the lockdown rules, are unable to go to their electorate office, and that is respected. But it sounds like, from what the Prime Minister has described, that even those ministers who would be able to get to their electorate office for video presence will not be available for question time for the remainder of the week.

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