Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I rise on a point of order. I was very careful to quote what the minister said yesterday—and what the minister said yesterday, for the relevance of his answer, was:

The government will now consider the full range of options for the awarding of this contract and will make a decision no later than March next year.

We are simply trying to get from the minister clarity as to what type of decision it is that he is promising to make by March next year. Referring simply to those words provides no clarity whatsoever.