Senator STERLE (Western Australia) (14:28): My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. I refer to the minister, who, before the Western Australian state election, labelled the Western Australian Liberal Party's preference deal with One Nation as 'sensible and pragmatic'. Does the minister stand by this description, or is his Western Australian colleague Senator Smith right when he said that the deal 'sucked the oxygen' out of the campaign?