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

Again, this is a point of order which has been taken and which provides a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response request by the opposition. The minister is answering the question and he is being directly relevant to the question. When you require a yes or no answer, I think it misplaces where the question is and where the answer should be. The opposition already know, in fact, from their own position what they want the response to be. They may not like the response by the minister in this respect, but the minister is being relevant in answering the question. To use that device is, in my view, not a point of order at all.