Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

We have heard from the member for Ryan an absurd rhetorical question today: ‘Why can’t I ask a question of the PM?’ The member for Ryan has not even attempted this year to ask a single question of the PM. We have had two weeks of sittings. What we have had today from the member for Ryan is a continuation of the hysteria and a continuation of the attempt to create a cloud of uncertainty and doubt about a simple change to standing orders, when there is no uncertainty. There is no doubt nor is there the slightest change to the accountability of the executive in this place. I just need to state a few very simple facts about the changes to these standing orders. First, we used to have under the former standing orders, question time—

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