Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Resume your seat.

The member for Macarthur will leave the chamber under 94(a). We just had an explanation about why people are entitled to raise points of order, and the member for Hume is entitled to do that. But you can't add extra things in. You can't jump up and just have a free-for-all. It's not within the standing orders. And if that starts, you can imagine where that could end. So how about we just agree today that you take the point of order, you say 'relevance' and you don't add extra things. That's going to help question time; it's going to help everyone do their job, including mine. The Treasurer was asked a broad question, like the similar one before. And if you have a question in there about why the government is making future generations pay for government's decisions, well, he's going to have to answer that, and he's answering that. That's the crux of the question. So, he's going to be broad with his answer because the question was broad.

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