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

President, my point of order is on direct relevance. Clearly the minister is not being directly relevant to the specifics of the question Senator Paterson asked. President, I'd urge you to engage more frequently when a minister is so directly pivoting to comments on the opposition or on matters that are extraneous to the specifics of the question and to more proactively draw the minister back to the question that has been asked.