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

Mr Speaker, page 553 of Practice makes clear that you can't ask—and the whole question has previously been ruled out; that's what Practice says—when the question is itself about party matters. In the question, there's a reference to a statement, where we hear nothing other than the statement being there. But the entire question itself is about membership of a party, and therefore it is squarely ruled out under Practicesquarely.

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