Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

House of Representatives Practice goes into great detail about the sub judice convention. It makes clear that it goes nowhere near an inquiry of this nature. The question was in order, as you ruled, and it's very clear there's not even an objection being made that in any way the minister was being anything other than relevant to the question he was asked.

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