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

Mr Speaker, on a point of order: what is going on here is that the terms and conditions of employment that have been obviated by the AWA are being read out in the form of a question, which is perfectly within the constraints of standing order 100(d), which says that questions must not contain statements of facts unless they can be authenticated—which they can—and are strictly necessary to make the question intelligible, which obviously they are. The member for Perth is going through the list of entitlements that are being removed by the AWA. He is not putting epithets around it; he is not putting argument to it; he is going through the list. And that is part of the process of holding this place accountable.

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