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

Mr President, on the point of order: Senator Ludwig was struggling away, saying, ‘If the question is’ and then suggesting something which the question clearly was not. That is why Senator Scullion rose to his feet. Senator Ludwig was constructing another question on which he in fact did have a brief but was not answering the specific question that was asked by Senator Scullion. I would invite you, Mr President, to invite Senator Ludwig to be relevant to the question that was actually asked, not the one he hoped might have been asked.