Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I raise a point of order about the question. I ought to have raised it, but with the interjections I couldn't hear the first supplementary. I think the senator is asking this minister in his primary portfolio capacity. I think asking this minister the reasons for a decision of another minister is not in order, because it is not a matter in his portfolio. My recollection is the senator did not ask the minister in his representing capacity, so I will just make that point but I don't object to the question. I ought have raised this in the first supplementary.