Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I have a question to you, Mr Speaker, and it goes to the conduct of question time, which is provided for in the standing orders to occur between 2 pm and 3.30 pm each day. Given that for the past five question times in a row that has not occurred, and question time has been concluded with a motion of suspension moved by the Leader of the Opposition, I ask the Speaker what precedents are there in order to ensure that question time can occur. Indeed, are there any occurrences whereby the ability to move a suspension of standing orders has itself been suspended by the government of the day in order to ensure that government business and the schedule can occur? Mr Speaker, as Leader of the House I certainly have received a number of complaints about question time being disrupted.

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