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Description

This diagram illustrates what happens in Question Time.

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

Questions to ministers continue alternating between government and non-government senators.