Alex Hawke (Mitchell, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

Over there.

Honourable members interjecting—

I can address this quickly. If you are ruling that the terms 'part-time' and 'full-time' are unparliamentary or offensive or are language outside of the standing orders, we will take that very seriously in terms of the operation of this parliament. And there are mechanisms available to us. It isn't going to work for that to be a general ruling about the language in this parliament. It is okay to make a case that someone is part-time, full-time or anything else. It's been made many times before in practice, and it's okay. In question time, there are different rules and standing orders that apply. That is a different—

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