Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

A second point of order was raised by the manager during that with respect to relevance. On that, I want to say that the question referred to an amendment to a piece of legislation. The Attorney-General has been referring to that piece of legislation. You can't refer to the penalties without referring to the crime, and therefore it is completely relevant to what was asked.

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