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

Madam Speaker, I have a serious question to you about the proceedings in question time today. I refer you to the answer that the Prime Minister gave to the member for Deakin concerning the arrest of a 23-year-old man in Sydney overnight, and I ask you, Madam Speaker, if you would investigate whether in fact there is an order arising over the arrest of the 23-year-old and the reporting of his arrest overnight, and whether in fact the Prime Minister has not breached any privileges of the House by answering a question which media outlets have been advised they are not capable of reporting on. Yet, if there is no court order, can you advise the House of whether she has, by her actions, prejudiced the trial of the accused.