Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

To the point of order: it's been raised before and so the Manager of Opposition Business, I presume, knows, because he's going to keep reading from page 524 of practice, which is the quote he just read, where it acknowledges that, in the ordinary event, debate is allowed on royal commissions in the House: certainly not on jury trials, but certainly yes on royal commissions.

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