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

To raise a question on the point you made, if you're not in a position to deal with how much of a proportion of a question is dealt with in different areas, how on earth are there rulings about preambles? How on earth have we had rulings about where you're in the first minute, or someone's just started? It is the role of the Speaker to decide whether or not question time is used for ministers to be accountable on their portfolios.

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