Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, on the point of order: what actually happened then was that Senator Nash reinvented her question. To call a point of order to ask you to bring the minister back to the question clearly was an attempt to waste this chamber’s time. It is a consistent pattern from those opposite to take points of order when all they do is waste the chamber’s time and slow down question time.