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

Mr President, I am speaking to two matters in respect of the point of order. The first matter is that it was raised as a point of order on relevance. In my submission, the minister was relevant to the question. He was talking specifically about funding of Tasmanian rail. The second matter I raise on the point of order, which in my submission you should rule out of order, is that it was not speaking to the point of order of relevance; it was in fact dealing with the question to try to correct it. I think in that sense it is impermissible.