Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

As a matter of courtesy to the senator I am rising to respond, but this is now the third portfolio he has traversed in his question, his supplementary and his second supplementary. The issue of sequestration and the legal liability associated with that was in Minister Ferguson’s portfolio—from memory. If I am wrong I will correct that, but it is my recollection that the carriage of that legislation was Minister Ferguson’s. The previous question related to Minister Burke, not to Minister Combet. I understand the senator is making a political point, but he is traversing three portfolios with this question and possibly it might be best to ensure—