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

The minister was answering the question. Clearly, the question went to the program Water for the Future, and in dealing with the question the minister was responding and he was directly relevant to the question. The minister was going to the issues of water for the future and, within the Murray-Darling, how much was being spent as a water-saving initiative. That is what the issue was about and the minister was being directly relevant on that issue.

What we now have as a point of order are two specific issues that were within the question. Those opposite are entitled to hear the remaining 48 seconds that the minister has got to complete his answer. Mr President, I ask you to then to rule them as having no point of order.