Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

If members are seeking the call I will apply the normal conventions and give those people the call. The whips have between them, as I understand it, come to some arrangement about the time intended to be allocated for various portfolio areas. That is in your hands, not mine. If people determine to use that time in a manner that prevents others from speaking or questions being answered that is not something the chair has the capacity to determine. I will apply the normal conventions and if a member is seeking the call I will provide the call accordingly, and if that results in questions not being answered that is in the hands of the members of the parliament.

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