Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:54): Senator Wong, what a champion of chutzpah you are—for a question like that to come from you, of all people, Senator Wong, whose government apparently has been re-elected in Queensland on One Nation preferences. Let that never be forgotten, Mr President. There's one reason, and one reason only, that it appears that the government of Annastacia Palaszczuk have been re-elected in Queensland, and that is that they took a number of seats in metropolitan Brisbane from the LNP by receiving One Nation preferences. Senator Wong: Point of order: I know Senator Brandis is very upset about the result, but my question related to preferences and the decision of his party to preference One Nation in 49 seats. Why did the Prime Minister not prevent that? The PRESIDENT: On the point of order, I can't direct the minister how to answer the question. I remind him, as Senator Wong just did, of the question itself. The minister has a minute and 14 seconds remaining. Senator BRANDIS: Senator Wong, for someone who is in government in Queensland today through One Nation preferences, I think you are the last person to be asking that question. In particular, as I pointed out to you yesterday, Senator Wong, it's all very well what your public position may have been, but what the position of your booth workers was throughout Queensland was to whisper into the ears of voters, 'Put the LNP last; vote One Nation before you vote LNP.' That's what they said. In relation to preferences, no deals were done. No deals were done between the LNP and the One Nation party. They shouldn't have been and they weren't. In relation to the events of 1998, which you appear to be referencing, Senator Wong, I was a member of the Liberal Party executive in 1998, and I can tell you that the historical observation you've made is inaccurate. The PRESIDENT: Senator Wong, on a supplementary question.