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

I raise a point of order, Mr President. In prior rulings, I thought you had dealt with the government calling people frauds and hypocrites, in general. You seem to have changed your rulings today. I would like you to have a think about your earlier rulings because it seems to me the Leader of the Government in the Senate was calling us hypocrites and Senator Campbell is now calling us frauds and that we support fraudsters. I ask you to look at your previous rulings and see whether that is really acceptable. It might explain why the opposition get agitated given that sort of attack.