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

Mr Speaker, ministers are to be asked, under standing orders, about what's within their portfolio. It is open to any member of the parliament to contest a state election. But, if question time starts to become commentary on every state issue, it fundamentally just undermines what question time's here for.

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