House debates

Monday, 6 February 2023

Questions without Notice

Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme

2:54 pm

Photo of Paul FletcherPaul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

He said:

… I regard it as going beyond the bounds of our sub judice rules if the honourable gentleman puts any construction on the matter for the simple reason that if the Royal Commissioner in fact concluded in a way which was consistent with the honourable gentleman's construction it may appear that the Commissioner was influenced …

So this is a very important issue, which has been considered by previous speakers. We have seen the minister who's about to come to the dispatch box trample over this important distinction before, and I urge you to consider this carefully.

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