Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have a point of order in relation to the requirement for the minister to be directly relevant. How can comments on what may or may not be happening with the Queensland state budget be relevant to a question about the impact on the federal budget in relation to state royalty increases around Australia? I asked a specific question about the impact on the federal budget. The minister did not go anywhere near it. There is no way that you could possibly rule that she was being directly relevant to the question.