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

Mr President, on the point of order: the minister has been—and if the opposition had been listening carefully then they would realise this—answering the question, precisely the exact question. The minister had gone through how the Bali process had been reinvigorated, how there had been a national commitment to sharing the burden and, in addition to that, the precise issues surrounding how you then work through this matter. The minister has been dealing with that in a directly relevant way. It is a shame that you then seek to use the opportunity to raise it as a political message. What the minister has been doing is providing an exact answer to your question.