Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I rise on a point of order. The minister has now spoken for a minute and 40 seconds and she has gone nowhere near answering the very specific question, which was whether the minister could confirm that, according to the Treasury's modelling, Australia's GDP will be 2.8 per cent lower in 2050 than it would be without a carbon tax. The minister has gone nowhere near answering that. While I appreciate that as President you cannot direct the minister how to answer the question, you can, according to our standing orders, direct her to be directly relevant to the question that was asked. With all due respect, the minister is not being directly relevant to the question.