Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Minister for Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Madam Acting Deputy President, on the point of order, if it is in fact correct, as Senator Brandis states, that the use of the word ‘impertinent’ has been ruled out of order by the President, I am not aware of that. But the senator in his speech did not use the word ‘impertinent’; he used some other descriptors that I think, in the context of debates in this chamber, are relatively modest compared to what I have heard over my many years in this place. He did not use the word ‘impertinent’.