Senator FIFIELD (Victoria—Manager of Government Business in the Senate and Minister for Communications and the Arts) (14:05): What I can absolutely confirm is that what this government has done is deliver a budget that will see a surplus for the first time since—well, we'd have to go back to when Mr Costello was the Treasurer of this country. There used to be a rule, I'll call it the Costello rule, where the former Treasurer said that, for each year of bad Labor government, you would actually need three years of good coalition government to undo the damage. What this government has demonstrated— The PRESIDENT: Order! I will call Senator McAllister on her point of order when there's silence. Senator McAllister: My point of order is on relevance. I asked for a confirmation of the cost of this backflip and that's yet to be provided. The PRESIDENT: You've reminded the minister of part of the question. I'm listening carefully. He has 23 seconds remaining to answer. Senator FIFIELD: As I was saying, this government has demonstrated that within six years you can actually repair six years of damage done by Labor. We have got the budget back in balance. Obviously there's still the work to do to pay down the debt of those opposite, and we will.