Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, on a point of order on relevance: you have repeatedly drawn Senator Conroy’s attention to the issue of relevance throughout this question time. He has now had nearly four minutes to answer a very specific question as to whether he was right or wrong in saying that the Federal Court decision has no impact on the Commonwealth budget. His attention was drawn to the fact that his government changed the treatment of GST revenues, and it has been put to him that he was completely wrong in his statement yesterday. I ask you to draw his attention to the question in the remaining minute that he has and to ask him to tell the Senate whether or not he misled the Senate, which we believe he did.