Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

On the point of order, Mr Speaker, the Leader of the House's points all presume that this question works on the basis that it could have only been the police who were asking questions of the security guard. That's not the question that's in front of us. The question that's in front of us is that no-one asked questions. Given that we are talking about something that happened to a member of staff within the ministerial wing and given that the Prime Minister has subsequently initiated a number of different inquiries, there are many different points at which questions could have been asked. None have. I don't discount for a minute the issues that have been raised, had the question presumed that we were asking: why haven't the police asked? But that's not what this question says.

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