Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister is indicating he's concluded his answer. I will make the point I was about to make anyway—that is, when it comes to relevance, which I presume was the standing order the Leader of the Opposition was rising on, when a question has a number of elements, including a really flippant element at the end of the question that certainly could be argued on a strict sense to be outside the standing orders, my option is to rule the question out of order or allow a lot of tolerance in the answer. That's why I did on that occasion. So, for those framing the questions, you just need to bear that in mind.

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