Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business (House)) Share this | Hansard source

On a point of order: the question began with a reference to a statement that was made by the Deputy Prime Minister on 1 February this year where he made a further statement about a previous portfolio. That was the quotation the question was referring to. The question has been deliberately framed in the same way as the 2006 ruling that you previously adjudicated on: if someone makes a further statement about a previous portfolio, it is in order to ask whether that's accurate.

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