Senate debates
Friday, 12 June 2020
Questions without Notice
Asylum Seekers
2:41 pm
Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Hansard source
The second part of your question, which I have written down, is: 'How is home affairs deciding who to move?' That followed a preamble where you were responding to the minister's previous concluding comments. Now, the minister was speaking for 10 seconds and had uttered one sentence. That sentence did actually refer to the movement of people. I cannot make a ruling on direct relevance 11 seconds and one sentence in. I can't instruct the minister how to answer a question, but I do remind senators that ministers can be directly relevant responding to preambles as well as to questions.
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