George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I rise on a point of order. You should ask the minister to be directly relevant to the question. The question asked the minister to confirm whether certain figures were true. She has responded by saying that the figures in the budget papers are accurate. She has now gone on to engage in her usual ritualised abuse of the opposition. That cannot bear directly upon the question of whether a given figure is accurate or not.