George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Madam Acting Deputy President, Senator Sherry obviously very deliberately, by repeating in a studied manner the unparliamentary word ‘impertinent’, is openly defying President Hogg’s ruling and is challenging you and defying your authority as the chair to enforce President Hogg’s ruling. So when you have disposed of the substance of Senator Sherry’s point of order, I ask you, consistently with President Hogg’s ruling, to require Senator Sherry to withdraw the word ‘impertinent’. That word was the subject of an explicit ruling by the President this morning.