Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, on a point of order: the Standing Orders and the House of Representatives Practice make it very clear that ministers cannot be asked questions about matters that are not within their own responsibility as ministers. This is a question about a private matter to do with the minister which could not possibly be within the knowledge of the minister for immigration. The question yesterday was out of order. This could not possibly be in order because the minister for immigration could not know the answer to that question—nor is it the minister for immigration's business to know the answer to that question, which is a private matter. This is a fishing expedition by the opposition. A question about whether someone had a traffic infringement notice because they ran a red light would be the kind of question these people are trying to ask in question time—

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