Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

Temporary Chair, on a point of order, part of the committee process is allowing senators from right across the chamber to ask questions of the minister of the day about the legislation before the Senate. Calling any questions ridiculous, superfluous and scare campaigns, as this minister has chosen to depict very genuine questions being asked by the shadow minister and other senators on this side of the chamber, I would argue should be ruled out of order.

The TEMPORARY CHAIR: I will ask you, Minister, not to reflect on the motivation of any question that's put and to refrain in future from doing so.