Michael Forshaw (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I rise on a point of order, which is the same one raised by Senator Sherry. If a minister is asked a specific question and gets up and says, effectively, ‘I can’t answer that question; I will get you the information,’ how is it possible, how is it logical, for the minister then to go on and say that she is going to answer the question, when she has already admitted that she cannot? I ask you to rule that she has effectively answered that question by saying that she cannot answer it and tell her to sit down.