Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, on the point of order: we now have an opposition who have degenerated into taking frivolous points of order. If they want to take relevant points of order, they can take those, but what we now have demonstrated for us is that the Liberals are choosing to use language that is bordering on unparliamentary in this place. I would ask you, Mr President, to reflect upon the point of order that has just been taken. It should be maintained, at least, what the relevance is of the issue being raised, but unfortunately we now have the Liberals degenerating into a farcical position. I would ask you to rule accordingly.