Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) | Hansard source

On the point of order, Mr President. Yesterday in question time you made it very clear that you wished for senators to desist from using points of order to simply repeat the question. Senator Brown asked a wide-ranging question that related to the rollout of the NDIS scheme. It is very clear that Senator Ruston is being directly relevant to the question. Just because Senator Ruston has not, in the first 31 seconds of her response, come to one point of Senator Brown's question, it should not be used as a point for Senator Brown to abuse question time by repeating her question yet again.