Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

There are a couple principles there. They're adding to an answer, and I listened very carefully. I presume the member for Chifley is referring to the answer that was just made. I felt it was short and concise. I concede that, at one level, it was close to the line, but what the minister did was anchor it on the two figures. I felt he explained how the $16 million figure was wrong. In fact, it was $11 million, and he explained what the $16 million figure was. If the minister had gone on to try to have an answer, I certainly would have pulled him up.

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