Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

Under the standing orders it's quite specific that, for a matter of public importance, a member of parliament can only nominate one matter. The member for Goldstein, today, has submitted two letters. In the first letter, he suggests that the debate on the issue he wants actually not be held today but be held in November of last year. That was a sitting day. It would appear, on the face of it, given that the standing order says that a member can only put forward a matter of public importance, if we are to agree with what the member for Goldstein wants, then, effectively, in the true tradition of them at the moment in looking back into the past, the issue he wants to discuss should be debated on 26 November 2025. That's what he's written.

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