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

Mr President, I rise on a point of order. The difficulty is that the primary question went to a guessing game. The substance was addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. The supplementary then has gone to the National Broadband Network, and Senator Conroy is not answering as the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. So, in this instance, either the opposition are befuddled about the direction of their question or in fact have got it wrong in relation to the substance of the question. On that basis, Mr President, I ask that you rule the question out of order.