Senator McGRATH (Queensland—Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister) (15:59): I seek leave to make a short statement. The PRESIDENT: Leave is granted for one minute. Senator McGRATH: The government does not support this motion. This motion is plainly political, designed to waste the Senate's time and delay consideration of important government legislation. In the final year of the last Labor government, the Senate was awaiting answers to 1,399 unanswered questions asked of Labor ministers. The PRESIDENT: The question is that the motion, as amended, be agreed to.