Senator REYNOLDS (Western Australia—Minister for Defence) (14:29): I thank Senator Patrick for that question. Normally, I would have thought, that question would have gone to the representative of the Treasurer in this house. However, I am very proud of this government's record in getting multinationals to pay their fair share of tax. We are global leaders in the international fight against corporate and multinational tax avoidance. In fact, Senator Patrick might be interested to know that since 1 July 2016 the ATO has raised about $13.5 billion in tax liabilities alleged against large public corporations and multinationals. Of that amount of money, $8.6 billion in tax liabilities is from multinationals. The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator Patrick on a point of order. Senator Patrick: Mr President, the burden of my question went to the measures taken to avoid contracting companies in tax havens. The PRESIDENT: On the point of order: to be directly relevant to the question, one must be relating to part of the question asked. Context is always available to ministers, but I'll remind the minister, as Senator Patrick has reminded her, of the specific nature of the question. Senator REYNOLDS: I suspect Senator Patrick didn't hear the answer to his first question, because I actually answered the question very clearly in relation to the defence department, and I'll repeat what I said in answer to the first question: from 1 July this year, under recent changes by this government to defence policy, tenderers are to provide certificates of satisfactory— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Patrick, a final supplementary question?