Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

A very fair ruling, Mr President. As I was saying, Senator Joyce is attempting to take comments about a guide and comments on a plan and pretend they are the same thing. They are separate things; one came before the other. They are completely consistent with each other. The fact that Senator Joyce is now going to have to explain to Senator Abetz and the tactics committee that he has been sprung misleading the chamber by trying to pretend they were the same things is something Senator Joyce will have to deal with. The whole premise of his question is completely false. It just shows the desperation of those opposite that they would try—