Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Madam Chair, I rise on a point of order. What the honourable senator is trying to do is re-enter a debate which is not before the chair. Once amendments are passed or carried, we will revert, I would assume, to general discussion and that might be the appropriate time. But given what you have just ruled—if I might say, Madam Chair, quite appropriately—it would be interesting to hear Senator Wortley on why the reduction in payments is such a good thing for all those people that were promised these payments.