Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The member for North Sydney will resume his seat. I hope the member for North Sydney has got the supplement to the question off his chest and feels happy, but it is beyond the standing orders. On relevance, under any version of relevance that is being used: the question quoted a letter and in that letter there was an expression ‘What about certain matters?’—employment and small business were included—therefore the Prime Minister is responding to the question and he is in order. But I simply say to the member for North Sydney that the device of coming to the dispatch box on a point of order and using it to add to the question is not in order.

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