Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Regrettably, I talked about consistency earlier in the week and I am not going to respond to that question because I really do think that members should only be putting questions about administrative matters to the Speaker and that those matters should be taken up with me at the time. I remind the member for Mackellar that the response from the minister was in fact a response to a question that she raised, and it would have been inappropriate for her to ask it to be made via a ministerial statement. There was a point of order raised by her on relevance, which is really the only point of order that can be raised about a question. I ruled that the question was in order—

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