Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister will resume his seat for a second. I'm very much focused on the question. The Prime Minister had a comprehensive preamble, can I say, but I'm not going to have a situation where we move from the question to interjections. Interjections are disorderly. The Leader of the Opposition's point of order was not a valid one. We're now—

Mr Albanese interjecting—

He did, but I didn't require him to withdraw. I didn't. I actually didn't, because there are other forums of the House to deal with what the Leader of the Opposition was talking about—namely, after question time, as he well knows. I'm just going to ask that the Leader of the Opposition not interject and that the Prime Minister not take interjections and start another debate.

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