QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

No, resume your seat. We're not having a debate. I understand the principle that everyone is frustrated.

I'm frustrated as well. But if they're broad political questions like that—the question was about whether the Treasurer was going to lose his job. That was the question, and it contained information about unemployment.

The Prime Minister has dealt with that issue. But, of course, if there are going to be these broad political questions—we've had two of them already, and we may have more today; that's the opposition's and any member's right to do so—it does broaden it. Normally there are questions about facts and figures, and we're after those data.

Now we're talking about some political context, so there are going to be political answers to a political question. The Prime Minister's got 30 seconds remaining to his answer, and I'll ask him to be directly relevant.