Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, on the point of order: under which standing order can we now have a situation where ministers can be asked a question in one portfolio and a supplementary question on an entirely separate ministerial representation? What is the relationship between the supplementary question and the primary question? What we have here is a question that went to me as the minister for innovation and then a supplementary question that went to me as the Minister representing the Minister for Trade. It is quite clearly out of order.