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

Mr Speaker, I refer you to the multiple rulings by Speaker Smith, where he made clear that if he was letting a question through that was borderline in any way that the rules of relevance were wide open. That ruling was made repeatedly by Tony Smith when he was in the Speaker's chair. This question is exactly in line with all of those precedents.

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