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. Seriously, in terms of relevance the minister has strayed a long way on this matter. The minister is now rambling about the ownership of media in Australia rather than dealing with the question which was specifically about the timing for the passage of legislation through this parliament and his commitment that it had to be done and dusted by the end of this week.

Government senators interjecting—