Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, on the point of order: what we now have again is a repeat of the first question again. The minister is answering relevantly to the question. I think Senator Faulkner hit the nail on the head when he said ‘a poorly drafted question’. When you look at the question, the minister has to attempt to construct an answer to a question that was poorly drafted. It was dealt with in such a way that it is a negative question. It went to the issue of the finance minister investigating the $14.7 billion and so on and so forth. That was the nub of the question. The part of the question the minister is being relevant to is about the Building the Education Revolution. It is about building schools in our community. Maybe the opposition could at least get on the same page.