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

In terms of the earlier ruling and Practice, Mr Speaker, the final tag of the question has to be about the statement, not about taking it somewhere else. You can't refer to the statement and say, 'Having done that, now I'm going to ask about this.' The question has to be about what was said in the statement, because the statement is what was said as a minister.

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