Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you for that, Mr President; that was timely. But could I raise a point of order. There is a creeping pattern where ministers are spending the first 30 seconds of their answers personally attacking the questioner and lecturing the questioner on the question they have raised. My point of order is: there is a rule that says that speakers must speak through the President and not directly. If ministers did that, they would not spend the early parts of their answers lecturing the questioner directly on how they should propose questions.