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

Yes, it is. Mr President, when you review the tape, I would invite you to come back into the chamber and report whether there is any substance to the quite outrageous allegation made on broadcast by the Leader of the Government in the Senate that slurs Senator Cormann. The gestures that Senator Cormann made, I am told, refer to numbers and there is the implication that the finger gestures were somehow inappropriate or rude. And to make that slur, Mr President, is as unparliamentary as that which the leader asserted.