Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister for Arts and Attorney-General) (14:04): Australian education has had no greater friend than the Prime Minister and no greater friend, I might say, than the Minister— Senator Conroy: The fixer! Senator BRANDIS: The fixer. Senator Conroy, you are trying to distract me, as you always do. You are very naughty, Senator Conroy. It has no greater friend than the Minister for Education, the member for Sturt, Mr Christopher Pyne. But the fact is, Senator Carr, that unlike that unlamented government in which you served with such conspicuous lack of distinction, we actually believe in future planning. We actually believe in future planning, and if you are going to— Senator Moore: Mr President, I raise a point of order again on direct relevance. If the minister could just come somewhere close to the actual question asked by Senator Carr it would be useful. The PRESIDENT: I will remind the minister of the question. You have 14 seconds in which to answer the question, Minister. Senator BRANDIS: Senator, an options paper is just that. A draft options paper considers options; that is what green papers are for—the sort of future thinking for which you could never be accused.