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

Mr President, in relation to your ruling, I would just ask that, as you have indicated, you will take away and consider a number of matters from today. Could I ask you to also ponder on your ruling that the minister is required to answer a supplementary on any parts to his portfolio. I thought the primary objective was for the supplementaries to be relevant to the primary question. Perhaps you could consider that as an issue as well in terms of the ruling that you have just given. I think it bears on the general conduct of question time.