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

Mr President, I rise on a point of order on relevance. This minister has now had almost a minute and all he has done—the same as Senator Wong does—is comment on the questioner. In no way can that be seen to be directly relevant. I know neither of those ministers have any competence with their own portfolio, but to allow them to spend the first minute of their answers actually attacking the questioner is just not relevant and, Mr President, I would ask that you might interrupt those ministers without us taking a point of order and make them abide by the regulations.