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

On two points of order: one, on the relevance rule, what matters is whether or not it's relevant to the terms of the question. That's what standing orders say, and I put that it is. Secondly, and I didn't want to interrupt while the minister was speaking, but I get that when a minister—and some of us do it; I'm guilty of it—deliberately inflames the place, people will interject back. The constant interjections, in particular from the member for New England—

Honourable members interjecting—

Interjections are always disorderly. But it is also the case—

Opposition members interjecting—

It's what you're doing now. I know you get angry a lot, but it's what you're doing now. When an answer is being given in the tone in which the Minister for Indigenous Australians is giving the answer, the interjections that are coming from those opposite simply should not be there.

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