Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, on that point of order: the senator is quite wrong in the sense that Senator Ludwig is doing his best with the brief before him to answer the question put by Senator Fielding. He is trying to be helpful. He is trying to address the issues, and was directly relevant to the question asked. Mr President, we have had a succession of points of orders today. People are misusing that mechanism of the Senate by taking frivolous points of order and effectively wanting to argue the case. Mr President, as you know, the time for that is during taking note of answers. I ask you to rule that there is no point of order. But I do draw your attention to the fact that this has become habitual behaviour that totally disrupts question time.