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

I'll give you a few different ways, but you can start with direct relevance. There's nothing in the question that invites a character assessment. You've allowed both alternative policies and alternative approaches. What the Treasurer's doing now is neither. He's not referring to an alternative policy. He's just giving a character assessment sledge. He's not referring to an alternative approach. He's just giving a character assessment sledge. If we go down this path, question time continues to go downhill. In terms of the standards of the place, this is beyond what the question invites on direct relevance.

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