Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! The member for Goldstein will now resume his seat. Whilst the argument in his point of order can be ignored, the argument in his question, having been allowed, cannot be ignored, and the Treasurer used the first part of his response to deal with that.

But I remind the member for Goldstein, as I would remind, yet again, the Treasurer, that the standing order now is 'direct relevance'. It is not 'direct answer'. I cannot dictate how in fact the response will be put together. The Treasurer is aware of his responsibilities under the standing order, and I advise him to relate his material to the question, but in doing so, there is nothing so far that gives me great concern. I remind the Treasurer of the need to be directly relevant.

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