00:00 The process you have just outlined is slightly different to the process outlined in the Cabinet
00:05 handbook about why matters are dealt with.
00:09 Can I just—
00:10 You have finished. That is why I restarted.
00:12 Okay, but let me just stop you so you do not waste a line of questioning. I am just giving
00:19 you—
00:20 I love the mansplaining. I am enjoying it.
00:22 You are loving what?
00:23 The mansplaining that is going on.
00:24 What are you—
00:25 Or just talking me through how—well, by not answering the question, by repeating processes
00:32 which are not related to the question that I have asked.
00:35 What is mansplaining, Senator?
00:36 Well, it is the slightly patronising and condescending way that you are responding to my questions.
00:42 Well, I would suggest, Senator, that if you are putting the word 'man' in front of some
00:46 description of what I am doing, you are doing that which I am sure you are very much against,
00:51 is making a sexist implication about how I am conducting my role as a man.
00:55 Well, then the easiest way to do it—
00:56 Is that what you are saying, Senator?
00:57 Well, what I am saying is that the way you have been responding to me has been patronising
01:01 and condescending, and I have responded to that. So the easiest way to deal with this
01:06 is not to—
01:07 By saying I am mansplaining. Imagine, Senator—
01:08 Is not to have that way in responding to the questions I have asked.
01:09 Imagine if I said you were womansplaining. Imagine the reaction, Senator.
01:09 to have that way in responding to questions of us.
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