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

Mr Speaker, I defer to your earlier ruling that you made at the request of the Manager of Opposition Business about language in the House. Had you not made that ruling at the request of the Manager of Opposition Business, this question probably would be something that's within the parliamentary debate and the back and forth, but the opposition asked that this sort of language be ruled out. I recommend it is.

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