Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My point of order—and I apologise, Mr President, as I should have raised it with you directly—is that Senator Vanstone suggested that she would leak any written request made to her by an opposition member. I object to the suggestion that she would abuse her ministerial position in such a way, and I want her to confirm whether that was what she was really saying.