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Photo and diagram: House of Representatives Question Time

Catalogue no: 0218

Source/copyright: Auspic/PEO (Auspic Reference No. 100379-003)

Parliamentary Education Office, 2011. Please visit the Image Library page for important information about use of images.

Description

This diagram illustrates what happens in Question Time.

  1. An opposition member asks the Prime Minister a question.
  2. The Prime Minister answers the opposition member's question.
  3. A government member asks a minister a question.
  4. The minister answers the government member's question.

Questions to the Prime Minister and ministers continue alternating between government and non-government members.