House debates Questions without Notice
Prime Minister
Mr Tony Burke Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts
2:56 pm
Just in terms of the precedents—and the Practice is clear about not being able to evade it by putting someone else's words in your mouth, in terms of the issue with quotations—we are dealing with something new here, where the quote using the unparliamentary language is from the very minister we are asking the question of. Of all the precedents, we haven't had that before, and it is reasonable for that to be tested in the House.
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