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

Mr President, on the point of order: senators, I think, have to come to these debates with clean hands. If a senator accuses a minister of being involved in blackmail in her question, I do not think that she can then demand that the minister be relevant to the other part of her question, where she deliberately seeks to incite and, quite frankly, makes an accusation that I think ought to be withdrawn.