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

Mr President, the point of order is this—and it flows from the consequences of your previous ruling: nothing the minister said in the entire time available to her was directly relevant to the question. The only question that was asked was whether the government agrees with an estimate of the level of American emissions by 2020. The minister began her answer by abusing the opposition. That was entirely irrelevant to the question. And she concluded her answer by speaking of Chinese levels of emission, which was entirely irrelevant to the answer.