Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

I accept that. He claims that I made that statement. My statement was specifically about the fact that the only time matters of public importance have ever been closed down on a Leader of the Opposition was when the Leader of the Opposition moved a substantive motion of the same nature during the course of question time. In this case, we wanted to talk about the global financial crisis, when the Prime Minister has not even come into this place, and now they want to close us down again.

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