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

The minister has been directly answering the question. But we have now seen the opposition take a point of order to simply restate the question. That clearly is impermissible. Mr President, you should rule that point of order out of order and get the opposition to note that they should not use the opportunity of a point of order to simply restate the question.