Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Chairman, I rise on a point of order. First of all, this goes to a question on notice I asked Treasury, not the minister. The minister is reading an answer to a question that was not directed to him, yet the inference at the start was that it was directed to him. So the point of order goes to relevance. The next point is that the minister is now verging on breaching standing order 196 on tedious repetition for the purpose of filibustering. We are going through every economy in the world. If he wants to add to something, he might want to tell us how much the American stock market fell the day after the American stimulus package. I think it was about 380 points. He might want to tell us the result of that, which goes to the efficacy of the whole purpose of this charade.