QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Speaker, to help with this matter, in your ruling last week you said: I think it's in the best interest for both sides not to be referring to any individuals, people or parties using that term. There is precedent where the now minister for health—I think he was the Deputy Manager of Opposition Business at the time—referred to 'government lies'. As I was listening to the member for Herbert, he referred to the 'Albanese Labor government's lies'.

At the time, the now minister for home affairs, then the Manager of Opposition Business, said this in defence of what the now minister for health said: 'On that point— Government members interjecting—