Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:10): There are tax measures in the budget. I wonder which of those tax measures you are going to oppose in this chamber. Are you, for example, going to oppose the measure to impose a levy on banks? Are you going to oppose that measure or are you going to support it through the chamber? Are you going to support the government's proposal in two years time— The PRESIDENT: Pause the clock. Point of order, Senator Wong? Senator Wong: My point of order goes to relevance. I did not ask about the opposition's position; I asked whether the Prime Minister had lied when he said he was not going to increase taxes. Was Mr Turnbull simply not telling the truth when he made this statement? The PRESIDENT: I will remind the Attorney-General of the question. Senator BRANDIS: I am sorry: I thought it was pretty clear from what I was saying that I was disputing what Senator Wong had put to me. If it is not perfectly clear to you, Senator Wong, there is nothing that the Prime Minister has said in the past that is at variance from the announcements that were made last night. If I may turn to some of those measures—as I was saying, are you going to be opposing in this chamber a measure that supports and funds the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which in two years time will involve a half a per cent increase in the Medicare levy, or will you support it in this chamber? Because the ball is now in your court. The ball is now in the court of Mr Shorten to decide whether or not he will support these measures, or whether he will support the government's initiative to bring the budget back into surplus sooner to fund programs like the NDIS on a secure basis or to expect banks, for instance, to pay a fairer contribution to the revenue through the levy we announced last night, and all the other fairness measures that we announced in this budget. As I said in answer to your colleague Senator Gallagher, the underlying theme of this budget is fairness. Are you on the side of fairness or are you not? (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Wong, a supplementary question.