Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The Deputy Leader of the Opposition will resume her seat. It is not the role of the Speaker to have critiques on questions, but if you want me to I will. In this case the member for Barker asked a question about a specific primary school. A course of action has been suggested by the minister. The minister is now, I assume, going on to explain how that course of action, by giving examples of other schools, can be put in place. I think if the behaviour of the chamber were to improve we might get through question time, after an hour and 20 minutes, and the behaviour has added to the length of time that we are here.

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