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

On the point of order, Mr President: it is the responsibility of those who ask questions in this place, as we saw with the first question asked here today, to identify the portfolio in which they wish to ask the question and ask it within that portfolio. Then of course the minister will be responsive to the question, either in their individual capacity as a minister or in their capacity as representing another minister in the other House. But it is not a point of order to rise and complain about a general question in question time that the whole of government should answer.