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

Mr President, on the point of order: when you rule could you indicate for the benefit of the Manager of Government Business that, under sessional orders, when you have a supplementary question your answer has to be directly relevant to that supplementary question and that you cannot go back to the initial question and try to keep answering that because you want to avoid the specific supplementary question.