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

I rise on a point of order, Mr President. The point of order is directed to direct relevance. We have allowed the minister to use more than three-quarters of the time available to him to address the context of the question. But in fact he was only asked one thing: will the minister confirm that, as at February this year, only 12 of some 2,650 Australian secondary schools have been connected to the NBN? That was all that he was asked. Can I ask you to direct him to that specific question in the short time remaining to him?

Senator Wong interjecting—