Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Seniors) Share this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, on a point of order: I refer you to page 565 of the Practice and also page 516. Clearly, the Prime Minister is given the right to absolutely refuse to answer questions—which she does repeatedly in this chamber. But she also chooses to use, as it says on page 516, 'abusive and insulting language of a nature likely to create disorder'. Clearly she does, and the point of order is this: if she is not prepared to answer the questions, she should at least take them on notice or say she is not prepared to answer them, when in this chamber it is time she said—

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