House debates

Thursday, 23 August 2012

Questions to the Speaker

Matters of Public Importance

3:13 pm

Photo of Christopher PyneChristopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | | Hansard source

Madam Deputy Speaker, I ask a question through you to the Speaker based on the statement that you have just read to the House. Could you ask the Speaker how he could explain that, in 2011, 96 per cent of matters of public importance went, as is the tradition, to the opposition. Yet in 2012 only 61 per cent have gone to the opposition, which seems to coincide with other events.