My question's to the Prime Minister. Reports in today's Herald say Toorak businessman, Kunal Shah, attended an exclusive fundraising dinner with the Prime Minister and Daniel Andrews in November 2024. Mr Shah has now been charged with selling hundreds of swords and prohibited weapons, including one to a child. Be straight with Australians. What did the Prime Minister discuss with this weapons dealer over dinner?

There is a little difficulty with this question under the Practice in terms of fundraising, and those questions are party affairs. So I'm going to ask the member to rephrase the question to allow it in order. The practice is clear about asking questions regarding fundraising and operations of parties. We can find a way through. I'm pretty clear we can. The manager on a point of order?

The prohibition on questions asking about party activities, noted on page 553 of the Practice, does not prohibit questions about the actions of a minister, vis-a-vis their party. To put it in another way: if this question had only been asked about this secret Labor fundraising dinner, the question would rightly be ruled out of order. I can point you to—

Yes, we're on the same page about this. I'm just saying that I can rule that part out of the question. I'm happy to do so, as the manager has helped me to do so, but I just thought he might want to invite it. In deference to the manager, we'll rule that part of the question out and the Prime Minister can answer the question.

I'm not sure what it is.

Can the member for Cook assist the House under the manager's direction about removing that part of the question and making it directly relevant to the Prime Minister's responsibility? We'll find a way through this.

():  My question is to the Prime Minister. Reports in today's Herald say Toorak businessman, Kunal Shah, met with the Prime Minister and Daniel Andrews in November 2024. Mr Shah has been charged with selling hundreds of swords and prohibited weapons, including one to a child. Be straight with Australians. What did the Prime Minister discuss with Mr Shah over dinner?

The manager?

There's still not, even after the rephrase, anything that's connected to the Prime Minister's official duties—nothing. It's: what did somebody else say to him?

Yes. You've got to make it reasonable and responsible about what the Prime Minister's responsibility is—not an event or something that happened. The question we can get in order, because it's referring to media reports today. So there's no question about that. There's no problem with that. If you can clean it up a little bit, and make it short and sharp, and then make it directly responsible to the Prime Minister.

My question is to the Prime Minister. Reports in today's Herald say Toorak businessman, Kunal Shah, met with the Prime Minister and Daniel Andrews in November 2024. Mr Shah has now been charged with selling hundreds of swords and prohibited weapons, including one to a child. Be straight with Australians, Prime Minister. How does this align with your agenda in keeping Australians safe, and what was discussed during this dinner?

I think it says it all about the state of the opposition that this is question 2 in question time. There was Whyalla. The 600 workers who lost their jobs was worth one question, and then we go from questions without notice to smears without notice. There's been a bit of activity in New South Wales about fundraisers, it must be said. That's something that the Leader of the Opposition is sure I'm following on a day-to-day basis. I'm sure he's following it very, very closely indeed.

Has the Prime Minister concluded his answer? Order!

Honourable members interjecting —

The members on my right! The member for Macnamara is warned. Has the Prime Minister concluded his answer? We'll move to the next question.