Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister, obviously, is able to be asked a broad range of questions with respect to a range of portfolios—indeed, all portfolios. There's also the convention that ministers need to be asked questions on their own portfolios. Now, if representations were made previously in time to a department and a minister in charge of that department, I think in the first instance that question would need to be directed to the minister in charge of that department.

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