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

Mr Temporary Chairman, on a point of order: I know that Senator Bob Brown wants to talk this out so that he might bluff some people in Tasmania with his disingenuous rhetoric. I was responding to questions being put to me by Senator Brown. I thought that in the flexibility of the committee stage debate it would facilitate the process for me to respond immediately to questions being put to me by Senator Brown. But I suppose it is emblematic of his disingenuousness on this issue that he would then call me disorderly for responding to the questions he put to me.