Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I raise the point of order I raised yesterday, which goes to the question of the opposition’s use of supplementary questions that have completely different subject matters to the original questions. In this instance a primary question was asked about activities at a school in New South Wales and the supplementary is a question about a school in Queensland, with no suggestion that there is any sort of context to that. Mr President, I ask that you have a look at this matter and advise the chamber, because it seems to me that this is an abuse of the use of supplementary questions.