Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

On indulgence: I do not wish to politicise this debate. Obviously, we would like to associate ourselves with the remarks of the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs about Anzac Day and about our friend from the armed services. I simply make the point that the opposition was only informed about this about 10 minutes ago. It could have been done by ministerial statement, in which case our shadow minister would have responded. It could have been done as a question. We will not haggle or niggle about it now, because it is an important issue. But it could have been done by ministerial statement and Louise Markus would have had the opportunity to respond. We were not given any notice about it until about 10 minutes ago.

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