Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, on a point of order: this is a serious matter now in this place. I have been here even longer than your good self, Mr Speaker, and so has the Prime Minister. I have sat through endless question times when both sides have been in government, in which, when there has been a matter relating to the unity of government that is a product of what is going on inside a political party and that directly relates to the actions of a minister, to wit, the Prime Minister in this instance, there have been questions here. It is shutting down accountability if we cannot ask this question.

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