Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (15:19): I know that this is the last question time of the week, and perhaps the Labor Party is running out of steam, but I do question the utility of asking questions about comments on contemporary political events that may have fallen from backbench members of the government. As a fellow Queensland senator and as friend of Senator Ian Macdonald— Opposition senators interjecting— Senator BRANDIS: Senator Pauline Hanson indeed was elected at the federal election and Senator Malcolm Roberts was elected too. The One Nation party got a very good result in Queensland; there is no doubt about that. Senator Macdonald's remark—which I have not seen, but I take at face value what you have attributed to him—was a commentary on the fact that the One Nation party did do particularly well in the Senate in Queensland as it did in other states.