Duncan Kerr (Denison, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the parliamentary secretary and I have some sympathy, although in the presence of the member and his wife, whom I admire, I want to be able to wish them all the best in their future. This debate has always been permitted to range over any matter of public administration or public interest and, whilst I would wish that I could bring it narrowly to a point of definition—plainly this is not a subject that I, as a member of the party myself, wish to have canvassed in this way—nonetheless I do not think that within the standing orders in this debate I can prevent the member from continuing.

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