Ms WARE (Hughes) (14:38): My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware of the Victorian Premier's $8.6 billion decade of tax on businesses and property investors in that state? Yesterday, the Premier encouraged Victorians to use his so-called COVID debt levy to offset their Commonwealth tax obligations, costing Australian taxpayers $3 billion over the next four years. Does the Prime Minister support Premier Andrews's decision to slug Victorians with $8.6 billion of taxes? Opposition members interjec ting— The SPEAKER: Order! Members on my left! The question was about the Victorian budget, but I just want to hear from the Leader of the House. Mr Burke: Mr Speaker, ministers are to be asked, under standing orders, about what's within their portfolio. It is open to any member of the parliament to contest a state election. But, if question time starts to become commentary on every state issue, it fundamentally just undermines what question time's here for. Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order! I want to hear from the Manager of Opposition Business. Mr Fletcher: Mr Speaker, it very clearly has an implication for Commonwealth revenues, as indeed the Victorian Premier has explicitly pointed out, and that's why it goes squarely to the Prime Minister's responsibilities. The SPEAKER: If the question was around the impact to the Commonwealth budget or something the Prime Minister—that was not part of the question. I agree with the Manager of Opposition Business, but the end part of the question was, 'Do you support the Victorian state budget?' That was the part of the question that was asked. I'm going to allow the question, but I just say, for the benefit of members in future: in framing questions, they can be related directly to the Prime Minister's or the minister's responsibility. That question is going to be totally within standing orders. Because of the respect I have for the member for Hughes, I'm going to allow the Prime Minister to address the end part of the question.