Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I take a point of order, President. In the interests of trying to deal appropriately with this, we have not taken points of order as to whether the questions are in order. I make the point that that question about friendship neither relates to the minister's portfolio nor to a previous statement. I again raise my concern from yesterday, and I ask people to reflect upon whether the use of private text messages of an alleged survivor is an ethical thing to use to ask questions in this place, particularly given what the DPP has said about her state of mind.