It is not just the Minister of the Crown that we are talking about.
So, in my respectful submission, your Honour has a substantial series of quotes, albeit they are in the form of hearsay and albeit it does come out of a newspaper, but made by a Minister of the Crown, who does not seek to correct them.
What is the point in keeping a Minister of the Crown whose actions have been deliberate and deceitful, and whom the media and the public no longer trust?
Now, as a Minister of the Crown, he says the opposite.
If any Minister of the Crown (or a Cabinet of Ministers) were to make a perverse decision, all of us would be goading on the victims to rush to get the decision quashed by the courts.
He is a Minister of the Crown, and that is what he said.
Not only that, it is written in a way that carries a veiled threat from a Minister of the Crown to the Speaker.
A recommendation to a Minister of the Crown or to a central government department or organisation may only be overcome by Order in Council.
What is it when a Minister of the Crown effectively says that this is not the end of it?
As a Minister of the Crown, Belinda will be under a lot more scrutiny.
Under Standing Orders, any proposal affecting government expenditure or taxation may be moved only on the recommendation of a Minister of the Crown.
Yes, but Parliament has delegated that power to a Minister of the Crown.
This House - and any self-respecting democracy - is able to hold any other Minister of the Crown to account.
When Ministers of the Crown give speeches surrounded by friends chortling away, the Minister must finally realise that no one takes him seriously.
In the last half-hour two Ministers of the Crown have come down to an empty House and fessed up to having given incorrect answers in question time, when we had a very robust, packed House.
We know that because Ministers of the Crown have told us today.
The articles required the registered member to be a Minister of the Crown and put a mechanism in place to ensure that this remained the position.
So it's unwise, on the whole, for this foolish, relentless Minister of the Crown to persecute them further.
Surely it is almost impossible for a Minister of the Crown to act as a private individual in almost every circumstance.
He is not all that high profile; he is just a Minister of the Crown.