Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I rise on a point order on your ruling, Mr President. Senator Minchin took a point of order. Simply saying, ‘The minister has 23 seconds’ is not a ruling on the point of order. You do that quite regularly, Mr President. I just say that, where a point of order is taken, you must rule whether it is valid and accepted or whether it is not a point of order and reject it.