Senator CORMANN (Western Australia—Minister for Finance and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:13): As I indicated in my first answer, in good faith— The PRESIDENT: Pause the clock. Senator Conroy: Mr President, I rise on a point of order. The minister is taking less than 15 seconds to answer his question, so there is not much time to take the point of order. The questions are very specific. The questions go to Treasury modelling; they are not about a government decision. We are asking him to confirm Treasury modelling. To dismiss the question and to dismiss your advice is, again, a reflection on the minister. I ask you to bring him back to the question that has actually been asked. The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator Conroy. I will remind the minister of the question. He has 55 seconds in which to answer. Senator CORMANN: I would say to Senator Conroy and everyone who is listening to this answer that I clearly confirmed in my primary answer, which is what I referred to in the first five seconds of my answer to the supplementary question, that Treasury did indeed conduct modelling at the request of state and territory governments, including the very good friend of Senator Conroy the Labor Premier of the great state of South Australia. This is not a secret. This has been long established. I think the Treasurer referred to this as part of the fact-finding. The important point here is that the government has not made a decision to increase the GST and, as such, this is just academic.