Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, a point of order: the minister has been asked a series of three specific questions about specific statements he made to the Senate on Tuesday of this week, statements he made claiming to have relied upon the advice of the Australian Government Solicitor. On each of these occasions we have simply sought that the minister provide further information about those statements and on each of these occasions he has refused to do so and simply referred back to his original comments. Clearly he is refusing to actually address the detail of the questions and be relevant to them.