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

Senator Hanson-Young, I should say. That is the difficulty when people take points of order on someone else’s question—even from the Greens. In respect of the nub of the issue, the minister is being directly relevant to the question that was asked by Senator Hanson-Young. It related to the compulsory acquisition of water. The senator is being directly relevant and is answering the question. What we are now ending up with is the difficult position of people raising points of order and debating the point itself. If it is the policy issue which is being—