Senator CORMANN (Western Australia—Minister for Finance, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (12:57): I will make an extremely brief contribution to this debate on this motion. I've got to strongly object to the contribution of Senator Siewert. Any proposition that this is being rammed through this parliament is false. This bill was first introduced into the House of Representatives on 28 November 2018. It had its second reading in this Senate on 2 April, and subsequently we had an election. An honourable senator interjecting— Senator CORMANN: Indeed, we had an election, and this was of course part of our platform—endorsed by the Australian people at the election. So there has been expansive scrutiny by the community in relation to this proposal to establish the Future Drought Fund, so that we can provide increased support for drought affected regional communities and farmers around Australia. This is something that has now been debated for eight or nine months. It has been through the processes of parliament for months, and it is now time to get on with it. The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Bernardi ): The question is that the motion moved by Senator Ruston be agreed to.