Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Hansard source

Can I remind senators of a previous ruling about supplementary questions. I have taken to start reading precedent on this. I will quote President McClelland:

… supplementary questions are appropriate only for the purposes of elucidating information arising from the original question and answer. They are not appropriate for the purpose of introducing additional or new material or proposing a new question, even though such a question might be related to the subject matter of the original question.

That is a ruling from President McClelland from 1986. It is in Odgers and it is the guiding principle about supplementary questions.