Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Acting Deputy President, I rise on a point of order. It is not the point of order about Senator Sterle reading his speech yet again—I won’t raise that. It has just been clearly pointed out by the opposition that this report that we are discussing, the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs annual report for 2004-05, covers a time when Senator Vanstone was not the relevant minister. What is the point of discussing this particular report? Senator Sterle seems to be discussing Senator Vanstone, who had nothing to do with the department at that particular time.