Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, by way of a point of order, can I raise with you—and I did not want to do this when it would interrupt the flow of question time—standing order 73(1), which says:

questions shall not refer to:

(l) proceedings in committee not reported to the Senate.

The question from Senator Collins to Senator Brandis clearly related to evidence given before either one of two committees which have not reported to the Senate on their proceedings. She has had no private discussions with anyone; the evidence clearly came from those committees; and the standing order says that the questions 'shall not refer to proceedings in committee not reported to the Senate'.