Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I have a submission, Mr President. With respect, I'd ask you, post question time, to take advice from the Clerk and look at the Hansard. We are not asking you to direct her how to answer the question. We are asking you to make a ruling to uphold the standing orders as to direct relevance. I'll put it to you—and I'd ask you to get advice and consider the Hansardthat a question which goes to Nationals resigning, which is what Senator Canavan put on the public record and which is an appropriate question to the Deputy Prime Minister's representative, cannot possibly be answered in a directly relevant way by reference to an entirely different matter.