Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:14): If I may finish my answer to your first question, Senator. The PRESIDENT: No, Attorney-General, you need to address the question that has been asked. Senator BRANDIS: I will address the question, and in doing so I will complete my answer to the first question and address the supplementary question. The PRESIDENT: A point of order, Senator Wong. Senator Wong: Mr President, on a point of order: this leader of the government is flouting the standard orders and flouting your indication. He did not come close to the question about whether or not the Turnbull government has a revenue problem. He now again is showing contempt, frankly, for the standing orders and for question time. I ask him to return to the question. The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator Wong. The Attorney-General was just referring to the question, but the Attorney-General knows he has to answer the supplementary question. Senator BRANDIS: I am referring to the supplementary question, Senator Cameron, and in doing so I will finish what I was saying in relation to the primary question. The real problem this country has is a debt problem. It is it a debt problem which was inherited from you. Now, Senator Cameron, in relation to the question of negative gearing— Senator Cameron: Mr President, I raise a point of order on relevance. The question, again, was quite unequivocal and clear. I did not ask for a review of his failure to answer the first question. The question I asked was simple: does negative gearing remain on the table as part of the Turnbull government's tax policy process? Again, we are halfway through the answer, and the minister is ignoring the question. The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator Cameron. If I could just make a general observation in relation to questions and answers— Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order, on my left and right! I would just make a general observation. I think it is a little bit unrealistic to expect ministers to jump instantly to the answer; that is the first point. But ministers can, in answering the question, put some contextualisation around the question, as the Attorney-General did in the previous answer. However, I will be listening carefully to ministers to ensure that they do come to the subject matter of the question. Senator BRANDIS: Turning to the question of negative gearing, which of course bears directly on the question of revenue—it bears directly on the subject matter of your primary question, Senator Cameron—the only political party in this country that has published a policy to change negative-gearing arrangements is the Australian Labor Party, and what the Australian Labor Party wants to do is crash the value of the principal asset of most Australians by taking a third of buyers— (Time expired)