Senator SCULLION (Northern Territory—Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) (14:38): What I can confirm is that the statements in the question were not only erroneous but mischievously misleading. Senator Pratt: Has there been funding? Show us the money! Senator SCULLION: You may not be interested, Senator, but I'm sure a number of Australians are, in Western Australia, in Queensland and in South Australia. Let's start with Western Australia. Did you mention the $130 million I paid them four weeks ago, Senator? Maybe you're not really on the clicker phone with them. Forty million of that has yet to be expended. So the entire NPARIH was paid off in good faith, plus a $40 million payment. In Queensland, we've already made sure a similar amount has been paid. And I have already told you personally and this place that there is at least a year's ongoing work that is still part of the original NPARIH. We are well advanced in our negotiations in South Australia. It's a very simple narrative, and I can just use the Queensland example. As I've indicated, I thought that the Labor Party, which first started off the NPARIH process—it was quite a wise process because it was non-subjective and quite formulaic. The PRESIDENT: Senator Cameron, on a point of order? Senator Cameron: Yes, on direct relevance. The question is about ongoing funding. The minister has not dealt with that issue of ongoing funding. The PRESIDENT: Senator Cameron, as I've said, I take a very liberal approach to people restating the question, but it should be phrased in terms of direct relevance and not as a demand for part of a question to be answered when the minister is clearly relevant to the question. Senator SCULLION: In the Queensland context, we have 387 houses that didn't meet the formula. That's why the Labor Party—and there's no mischief in this—didn't put a population growth indicator in that. We should have, at the end of 10 years, built so many houses for so many people in the population, but we're 387 houses short. Our deal with the Queensland government is that we'll pay for half of the houses and they'll have to pay for the 57 houses in the future from NAHA. It's a solid arrangement that I'm sure will be accepted. It has certainly been accepted in South Australia. We're well and truly ahead in our negotiations with Western Australia and Queensland. Any suggestion that there are no further funds is absolutely spurious and mischievous. The PRESIDENT: I remind senators to address their comments to the chair, particularly when answering questions. Senator McCarthy, a supplementary question.