Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, I take a point of order while Senator Evans is still in the chamber. I notice Senator Evans was not in the chamber when the President gave his ruling on Senator Evans’s behaviour at question time yesterday. In view of the President’s ruling and comments indicating that he thought Senator Evans did reflect in a personal way on another member of another house, could I suggest that we afford Senator Evans the opportunity now of withdrawing his comment and apologising to the chamber and to the person he mentioned yesterday in question time.