Senator RONALDSON (Victoria—Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC and Special Minister of State) (14:48): The question I am sure that those who are new to this chamber will be asking themselves is: why has it taken until 9 July for this shadow minister to be asking questions— Senator Moore: Mr President, I rise on a point of order, as to direct relevance. There is no way that the answer has so far been directly relevant to the question. Could you please draw the minister's attention to the question. The PRESIDENT: There are two comments to the point of order, Senator Moore. Firstly, Senator Carr said, 'are you aware' and then 'why'. There were two questions specifically and the minister has only had 15 seconds into his one-minute answer. I draw the minister's attention to the question. He is being relevant at this point. Senator RONALDSON: The Abbott government are setting a new direction for industry policy focused on new jobs, new investments and making Australian industry more competitive. There were under the previous government a plethora of programs which were spending enormous amounts of money for little or no outcome. This government make absolutely no apologies for introducing a range of targeted measures to ensure that we give manufacturing workers and other workers in this country the very best chance to transition through what is an incredibly difficult time. We are determined to ensure that Australian manufacturing and Australian manufacturers have the very best chance, including abolition of the carbon— (Time expired)