Senator McKIM (Tasmania) (14:18): Given your abject refusal to answer the question you were just asked, Minister, for clarity I will put it to you again: will you categorically rule out your government taking any action to force the hundreds of men, women and children currently in the Nauru RPC out of the centre? That is not asking you whether or not you're going to close it; it's asking you whether you're going to take that action. The PRESIDENT: I pause the clock. Senator O'Sullivan on a point of order. Senator O'Sullivan: The procedure says you cannot ask the same question for a second time. Senator McKim has indicated that's exactly what he was going to do. The PRESIDENT: In my time in this chamber, while that rule is there, we have allowed senators to rephrase their questions in supplementaries. I treat this is a rephrasing. Senator McKim, please continue your question. I start the clock. Senator McKIM: I have completed my question and I would appreciate a direct answer from the minister this time.