Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:14): No, Senator Pratt, I cannot confirm that. But I will tell you what I can confirm, and that is: this government is about to make some very important decisions on the national energy market. The result of those decisions will be to ensure that Australians have affordable energy, unlike the doubling of electricity prices that occurred during the period of the Labor government; that they have reliable supply, unlike the experience of South Australians in particular, whose entire state was blacked out by a policy adopted by the Weatherill Labor government that was driven all by ideology. The PRESIDENT: Pause the clock. I will take the leader, Senator Pratt. Senator Farrell. Senator Farrell: On a point of order: will the leader please stop picking on South Australia? It was a storm that caused the blackout—please. The PRESIDENT: Order! That is not a point of order, Senator Farrell. Senator Pratt, do you also wish to raise a point of order? Senator Pratt: My question was about jobs, and Senator Brandis has not referenced them at all as yet. The PRESIDENT: Senator Pratt, your question directly was: can the minister confirm? The minister said he could not confirm and the minister is now enhancing his answer, which ministers do. Senator BRANDIS: Thank you very much indeed, Mr President. Where was I? In the state of South Australia, which I love, Senator Farrell—I love the state of South Australia and I am very fond of individual South Australians, including you, Senator Farrell. We are not picking on South Australia; we are coming to the rescue of the people of South Australia by protecting them from a state Labor government which has been a case study of how not to do policy in this area—because, if you build your energy policy, if you decide your energy policy, on the basis of your ideological obsessions and your fear of our Green friends over there in the corner, then you— The PRESIDENT: Order! Point of order, Senator Farrell. Senator Farrell: On a point of order, the leader is misleading this house. The PRESIDENT: That is not a point of order. Senator Farrell: It was the sale of ETSA that caused the current set of problems. The PRESIDENT: Senator Farrell, there is no point of order. I remind senators that points of order must relate to the standing orders and cannot be used as debating points or points to score. Attorney-General, you have the call. Senator BRANDIS: Thank you very much, Mr President. So when you let ideology drive your policy and when you let your fear of the Greens drive your policy, as you people in the Labor Party do, that is what happens. But we will not be doing that. The decisions that we will be making shortly, informed by the Finkel report and informed by the very good discussion we had the other day in our party room, will ensure affordable electricity, reliable supply and our commitment to international— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Pratt, a supplementary question.