Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

On the point of order, surely the distinction here is the fact that, as Senator Faulkner quite rightly points out, most if not all of us use a combination of referring to notes and also making extemporaneous comments. In most speeches it can be a combination of both. The point here is that Senator Conroy consistently, for many months now, has in every question time read verbatim from an electronic document holder. That is not the normal practice of senators in this place. As Senator Brandis quite rightly says, there is a difference between—