George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Acting Deputy President, I rise on a point of order. The MPI we are discussing is:

The need for the Federal Government to intervene, by way of wasteful spending to compensate for the policy failures of the New South Wales Labor Government.

Even on a very liberal interpretation of relevance, I fail to see how what Senator Hutchins is saying—that is, what Senator Bernardi allegedly said to a private gathering at a restaurant in Sydney which Senator Hutchins asserts had to do with internal Liberal Party affairs—has anything whatsoever to do with the MPI, and I invite you to rule it irrelevant.