Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The point of order is relevance. The question directly went to the advice from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet on two occasions on Monday, 1 June which appear to have been ignored by this minister in his failure to correct the record after that advice twice. He may think that it is amusing to criticise Senator Collins

I happen to think, and the opposition happens to think, that misleading the Senate is actually a very serious charge.

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