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

President, a point of order on direct relevance: as you point out, interjections are always disorderly, but you allow some degree of latitude, but what we outrageously have here is the Leader of the Government in the Senate responding to interjections that are really not interjections; they are prompts from the ministers sitting behind him. The coalition was silenced as the minister was answering, and I ask you to draw him to the question.