Senate debates

Monday, 2 December 2019

Questions without Notice

Prime Minister

2:02 pm

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As I've said before, I'm not going to pull up ministers—directly relevant is not possible to police on every single sentence. The minister is entitled to challenge the assertion, quotation or otherwise of a preamble in any question.

Senator Wong interjecting—

Senator Wong, if I could finish before I take another point of order.

Senator Wong interjecting—

Can I finish this and then, please, by all means, come to me. What I will ask the minister to do is to turn to either the quotation used, which I believed he was in order in addressing or challenging before, or the question asked at the end of that preamble. As I said, glancing comments around other matters are appropriate, because one couldn't police—

Senator Wong interjecting—

He was in the middle of a sentence, Senator Wong. I'm not going to pull up ministers in the middle of a single sentence.

Senator Wong interjecting—

Senator Wong, I'll take the interjection then, but, quite frankly, the previous question, which you did raise a point of order to, referred to 'why', and I think the minister was in order in using those words in answering why the government did not do something. I don't think I can rule that is not directly relevant. There is a time to debate this after question time, and that's the appropriate forum for it.

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