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

Further to the point of order—and this goes back to the change that was made a number of years ago to the standing orders that shifted from answers to questions having to be relevant to answers to questions having to be directly relevant—I submit that a history lesson on the establishment of Infrastructure Australia, just because Infrastructure Australia was mentioned in a question, is not directly relevant. Direct relevance actually required turning to the substance of the question asked, not picking one or two words out of it for the convenience of the minister.

Honourable senators interjecting—