Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The Treasurer will resume his seat. Members will cease interjecting. I have heard the Manager of Opposition Business and I would like to respond to him without a wall of interjections, from both sides I have to say. The Treasurer, who I am listening to very closely, is halfway through the answer. I have made the point that ministers can draw analogies and I have made the point about the policy topic, but I do say to the Treasurer very clearly that, unlike some other questions that were being asked—and this is not a criticism of the questions—that question did not contain a preamble or any other material. So I am listening to the Treasurer closely and I would invite him to be relevant to the question. The Treasurer.

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