Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, I raise a point of order on relevance. I have been listening to Senator Brown for the last 10 minutes and he has been talking about a carbon tax. Could you draw his attention to the fact that this bill that we are debating is about a flood levy and a flood tax. Whilst I appreciate that we allow a lot of latitude in these things, we are interested in Senator Brown’s views on a flood tax and on why he is supporting the Labor government on yet another new tax, rather than talking about some tax which has not yet been introduced.