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 going to relevance. The minister admitted that she was going to read a brief that has nothing to do with the question asked. She is pressing on. She reads beautifully—I will concede that—but she is making no attempt at answering the question, which goes directly to her answers made in this place at the end of June. They have been contradicted by other people. She has been asked specifically about that and she refuses to even attempt to bring any answer to that question. We are not here to hear ministers read briefs that are of no relevance to the question.