John Hogg (President) Share this | Hansard source

Firstly, on the point of order, I cannot tell the minister how to answer the question. That has been a longstanding situation in this chamber.

Opposition senators interjecting—

Order! If you did not interject and had waited, you would have heard the whole context of what I had to say. I cannot tell the minister how to answer the question. The next part I was going to say, if people had been patient and had waited, was that I draw the minister's attention to the question and the minister has one minute and one second remaining.