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

Mr President, thank you—a point of order at last! On a point of order: we have now seen two instances of impermissible behaviour in this Senate in taking a point of order—firstly, taking a point of order that was, quite frankly, unnecessary, but then using that point of order to restate the question, if not badly then inaccurately, and, in doing so, providing a false impression of the original question. So this point of order is in answer to that point of order—there is no point of order, and the minister is being relevant to the question that is being asked and is dealing with the policy issue.