Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. There are two things. First of all, happy St Patrick's Day. Secondly, you referred before to the fact that the attendants are responsible for turning the microphones off. The reality is that the microphones will not cut out until you give a member the call, and repeatedly, if we stand here with a point of order, we are not given the call until a minister has finished.

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