Labor and the Coalition have gone head-to-head over the state of Australia’s economy and the impact of interest rate rises in Question Time on Thursday, with Speaker Milton Dick forced to call for order on multiple occasions.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives repeatedly called for order on Thursday afternoon during Question Time as Labor and the Coalition engaged in a fiery debate about the state of Australia’s economy and interest rate rises.
Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra began at around 2pm on Thursday. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman “He was hoping that nobody noticed that interest rates started going up on their watch, and they started going up on their watch because when they were in office, inflation was 6.1 per cent and it was rising, Mr Speaker.
Mr Chalmers and Mr Taylor engaged in a fiery debate about the economy. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman“Relevance, Mr Speaker. That was very deliberately a very, very tight question which he has been completely unwilling to engage on and be even slightly relevant towards,” Mr Taylor said.
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