Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (14:42): We could not get a sharper contrast between a government focused on the future and an opposition focused on sleaze and smear from 17 years in the past. The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will return to the question before the chair. Mr Pyne: Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The Prime Minister is accusing the opposition of smear but the stories that are being written about this are being written by Hedley Thomas, Mark Baker and Samantha Maiden. Is she accusing them of smear? The SPEAKER: The Manager of Opposition business will resume his seat. Mr Albanese: Madam Speaker, on a point of order: what was the point of that point of order from the Manager of Opposition Business? The SPEAKER: The Leader of the House will— Mr Albanese: My point is that a point of order has to be about the standing orders being breached. The Prime Minister was perfectly within the standing orders in calling you out on your sleaze campaign. Mr Simpkins: It is about accountability! The SPEAKER: The member for Cowan will leave the chamber under 94(a). The Prime Minister has the call and will refer to the question. Ms GILLARD: I stand by my comments on the public record in relation to this matter. Let me make it clear: my accusation of the opposition is hypocrisy. I table a record of the press conference held by the Leader of the Opposition at the start of this week, 29 October, in which he said— Mrs Bronwyn Bishop: Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I refer you to page 565 of the Practice, where it says that it is established practice of the House that where a minister refuses to answer a question it is usually on the basis that it deals with national security or other matters. Clearly that does not come into the failure to answer these questions. The Prime Minister should either take it on notice and supply the answer or answer the questions that have been deliberately put by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. These are questions that have in fact never been addressed by the Prime Minister, including in her press conference. Mr Albanese: Madam Speaker, on a point of order again: that contained argument. There is a process in which that is quite clearly out of order. If someone wants to object on the basis of relevance, they simply have to state that, rather than put an argument before the House. The SPEAKER: Leader of the House, I was going to point out to the member for Mackellar that until the end of the point of order she was making a relevant point of order. The last part, however, was not relevant. It was introducing argument, and points of order should be on issues of procedure. The Prime Minister has the call and will be relevant to the question. Ms GILLARD: When I was interrupted, I was tabling a document containing a statement of the Leader of the Opposition from 29 October where he says: I will leave the nasty personal politics to the Labor Party. I predict that we will see a lot more of that in the months leading up to the next election, but I am going to focus every day on what matters to the Australian people and that is sensible, careful, responsible change that will give them a stronger economy and a more cohesive society. The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will table the document and resume her seat.