Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I rise on a point of order on relevance. We know that the minister may have on many occasions said that the government would not ban short selling, but on page 17 of yesterday’s Hansard the minister is quoted as saying:

... the government would not legislate to control short selling.

We are not talking about the word ‘banning’; we are talking about controlling and that is substantially different. I would invite you, Mr President, to ask Senator Sherry to be relevant to the question that was actually asked, not the one that he was hoping he might be asked.