Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

President, on the points order that have been taken, and indeed Senator Watt's assertion while you was speaking before, cavalierly, that he still has 30 more seconds, with a tone that apparently means he can say whatever he likes, just because he has taken the details on notice does not remove the obligation for him to be directly relevant to the question that has been asked and does not provide him with free licence to simply talk about the previous government. I encourage you to draw him back to the direct relevance of the question.