Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I will deal with this. I was anticipating this, so I have followed previous Speaker Smith's example, who did exactly the same thing on 29 July 2019 when he refused a point of order for exactly the same manner; on 19 August 2019, when the then minister for populations, cities and urban infrastructure was being questioned. Indeed, the manager of opposition business at the time was treated the same way, so the consistency is there. If people wanted to take points of order, they were given that. Yourself, the Leader of the Opposition, the deputy leader and the Leader of The Nationals do get certain allowances for their seniority. But to simply disrupt question time, when I made it clear to the House that the minister was being directly relevant because he asked such a broad question is entirely what has happened before and will continue in that manner. The Minister for Health and Aged Care in continuation. I will ask him to be directly relevant.

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