George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I rise on a point of order. I have carefully avoided directing any aspect of this question to any operational matter. It has been the convention in this chamber and in estimates committees—and I would invite you to rule on this—that a question in relation to an agency such as the AFP that is not directed to operational matters is in order and therefore the ground of objection taken by the senator to answering the question is impermissible.