Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I have a question or more of a request. I understand that we have been advised that Hansard is not going to be printed but it is only going to be distributed by email. For members of the House of Representatives on both sides of the chamber, from time to time we do refer to Hansard and I would request that you consider printing just three or six copies that we could access during the course of question time, because quite clearly we cannot bring computers into the chamber during question time—or printers, by the way. Just a modest number of copies would be helpful in the chamber.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I will take the Treasurer's question into consideration and see if it is possible to do that. Like the Treasurer, we too are keen to cut costs.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have two questions to the speaker. First of all—if I may join with the comments from the Treasurer—it used to be the case that the printed copies were the only copies that attracted privilege. I do not know whether that has been changed, but that has been referred to previously.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Electronic documents are also covered.