Senator WHISH-WILSON (Tasmania) (14:53): This is a very important supplementary based on that response. Why hasn't the environment minister gone, Senator Cormann? Why didn't you send a senior minister like the Minister for Foreign Affairs? If the House is sitting, so is the Senate. Why haven't you sent a senior minister to one of the most important meetings on international whaling in decades? Why haven't you sent a senior minister, when you have for every other meeting of the International Whaling Commission? What is different about this week? Is it because of the chaos that you have brought on this country— The PRESIDENT: Order, Senator Whish-Wilson! Please resume your seat. Senator WHISH-WILSON: has paralysed you from doing anything on matters that really— The PRESIDENT: Senator Whish-Wilson! I remind senators of the standing orders and the material that is supposed to be contained in and prohibited from questions. Senator Cormann.