Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I raise a point of order. The minister makes a complete farce of question time. She was asked for three dates. We are not interested in her account of what might be happening. She should be answering the questions, which were about three dates. That is all we want to know. If question time is going to mean anything, ministers must be obliged to actually answer the questions and not go off on a debate among themselves.