Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, on the point of order: Senator Macdonald was unable to identify what the point of order was. He refused to acknowledge what the question actually was. He refused to acknowledge the preamble—all of the sledging that went on in the first part of the question—and just airbrushed it away: it did not happen. Unfortunately, the question contained a whole range of things, assertions and implications, that Senator Macdonald is simply seeking to ignore to waste the time of this chamber to take another frivolous point of order, and it should be dismissed out of hand.