George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, on a point of order, as you know this question was directed only to the question of the government 's broken promise to deliver a budget surplus and each of the words that I have quoted to the minister—as he knows—were words used by members of the government to characterise their own promise to deliver a budget surplus. With respect, an answer to this question on anything other than the broken budget surplus commitment is not directly relevant to the question.