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

Mr President, on a point of order of direct relevance: both the primary question and each of the two supplementary questions were directed to the methodology exposed in the budget papers. The second supplementary question from Senator Cormann directly challenged how that methodology could result in a downward reduction in the number of estimated boat arrivals at a time of an increasing upward trend. That was the substance of the question. It is not being addressed in this very, very general answer.