Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I rise on a point of order that goes to the question of relevance. The minister has had most of his time so far to answer the question. The precise question went to the Prime Minister’s announcement about ACCC monitoring last weekend. It also went to the comparison between the $1.45 in Sydney and the 10c not being applied in Western Australia. That is the anomaly that Senator Stephens raised in her question. The minister has made no attempt to address the question put to him and has sought to blame the Labor Party, after 10 long years of the Howard government, for everything that is wrong with petrol prices. I ask you to direct him to the question.