Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:38): Thank you very much indeed, Senator Roberts. I know you, like your leader, Senator Hanson—through you, Mr President—take a deep and serious interest in this issue. Senator Waters interjecting— Senator Sterle: In seats in Queensland—you've got it. Senator BRANDIS: I hear interjections coming from the other side. I would have thought that the way in which we deal with family breakdown, families and relationships in distress, and women and children facing family violence is not something that ought to be the subject of partisan interjection and political point-scoring. Senator Roberts, it is a deeply serious question you raise, and I thank you for raising it. There is pressure on the family law system; there is no doubt about that. And there is pressure on the legal assistance budget. But I can tell you where that pressure comes from primarily. Senator Jacinta Collins: Your cuts! Senator BRANDIS: Four years ago—I take your interjection, Senator Collins. Four years ago, in the final budget of the Labor government, the former Attorney-General, Mr Dreyfus, who continues to haunt this Senate today, apparently, like the ghost of Christmas past, announced a four-year funding program which would terminate in 2017. That is what members of the sector refer to as 'the Dreyfus funding cliff'. The expiry of that program on 30 June 2017 is not the result of any decision taken by me or any decision taken by this government; it is the result of a decision taken by Mr Mark Dreyfus in his submission to the 2013—the final—Labor budget. During this government we have announced a national partnership agreement for legal funding that provides $1.62 billion over five— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Attorney-General. A supplementary question, Senator Roberts?