Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

No. We're going to do this again because I couldn't hear the question because there were too many people on my right interjecting. The way question time works is—for those on my right—I need to hear the question if a topic comes up or there's a point of order I then have to make a decision on. It makes my job really hard if I can't hear it, so we're going do this again and the member for Hume's going to have his question.

Government members interjecting—

I don't need any commentary; otherwise, people will leave and not hear the question.

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