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

Under precedents from both you and former speakers, when a question that was particularly borderline has been allowed, there has normally been a pretty light-handed attachment to the relevance rule. With Speaker Smith and a number of speakers, when a question could have been in or out, that's been taken into account in the relevance rule.

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