Senator SINODINOS (New South Wales—Cabinet Secretary) (14:25): I may well ask the good senator whether his party will give a guarantee not to use technicalities of the law to stop major job-generating projects in places like Queensland. I find it a bit rich that you seek to attack these provisions and, at the same time, are always telling us and lecturing us about signing up to international conventions, of all sorts, which hobble the capacity of the Australian government to do things that we regard as being in the Australian national interest. The PRESIDENT: Pause the clock. Order! Senator Whish-Wilson: Mr President, I rise on a point of order on relevance. I asked if the senator could give a guarantee—a very simple request—that the Australian people will not be sued into the future through the TPP investment chapter provision. The PRESIDENT: I will remind the cabinet secretary of the question and advise him he has 30 seconds in which to answer. Senator SINODINOS: I am happy to give a guarantee that under the TPP Australia will be a richer and more prosperous country in the decades ahead, and the ISD provisions will work to our advantage.