John Faulkner (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I am arguing strenuously, Mr President, that there is no point of order, and to use the device of a point of order, literally the best part of 20 hours after the alleged offence took place, is Senator Macdonald simply being far too sensitive about matters that are the sorts of matters that are subject to robust debate in this place every single day the Senate sits. And none of us—not you, Senator Macdonald, nor I, nor anybody else—should be so sensitive.