Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The only matter that the member for Boothby could be rising on is the point of order on relevance that has been taken on two occasions. I am well aware of that point of order. I have given the Prime Minister the call. As is well known, I am not in a position to dictate the way in which the Prime Minister or any other minister at the dispatch box decides that they want to respond to a question. In the past, when a minister or Prime Minister has been responding to part of the question, that has been seen to be relevant, whether or not those who have asked the question believe that there is some other way in which the question should be answered.

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