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

I would ask you to take advice from the Clerk as to whether or not a question about a candidate in a state by-election is actually relevant to the minister's portfolio. It really does bell the cat that the opposition is now, days out from a state by-election, seeking to ask a direct personal question about an individual—an individual they were happy to name and were happy to [inaudible] in this place. I would ask you to seek the advice of the Clerk.