Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Whilst compare and contrast has been a feature of question time for a very long time, certainly as long as I've been here, I'm just going to listen carefully to the minister to make sure. Obviously, he can't have an answer—the manager is correct—simply about alternative approaches, because he wasn't asked about alternative approaches. He was asked about opposition. I hope that's not just going to be one part of what the 'opposition' could be, so I'm going to make sure that his answer reflects on what he's doing and has responsibility for but also that it's not an answer simply about alternative policies or approaches, because he wasn't asked about that. I hope that's clear to everyone, in terms of what the minister can and can't do, and if he strays from that I will have to take action.

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