Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

On the point of order, Mr President: what we now have the opposition doing is providing their question again, attaching the word ‘relevance’ to it in the hope that it gets heard for a second time, then adding commentary to it. It is impermissible to do that. They should state whether it is relevant or not and their argument for that without raising the question again. I humbly submit that there is no point of order that has been raised by Senator Abetz because he has, again, just simply reiterated the question and attached the word ‘specific’ to it. Senator Conroy can provide a broad answer in respect of this question and he is relevant to the question and on point, I would humbly submit.