Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I rise on a point of order: under sessional orders the leader of the government is required to be directly relevant. In relation to all that to which we have had to listen, it is a fact that the Prime Minister promised that there would be no carbon tax. That is not a smear; that is a fact, as were all the other elements.