Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

We're going to get through this. Manager, resume your seat for a moment. I take the point from the Manager of Opposition Business, which is correct, and that from the Leader of the Opposition, which is correct also. The difficulty for the chair—and this is not the first time this has risen—is that this is not the first time in any parliament where descriptors have come into it. So I'll allow the question, but I'm just making a point to the House that we need to be careful with the language that we—on both sides—are using with questions and answers. This has come from the crossbench before, and it has been raised. I understand the issue; I'm just advising the House—for everyone's benefit—that, if we could reframe language to be more factual and to be on point, I think question time would be a better thing. I give the call to the member for Hume.

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