Senator McKENZIE (Victoria—Minister for Agriculture and Leader of the Nationals in the Senate) (14:34): Thank you very much, Senator O'Neill, for your question. The National Party is standing with our nation's dairy farmers ad nauseam, as we've debated through question time this week. We're very proud to be the only party that took to the election what the dairy farmers in this country wanted. They came together and voted as one for a mandatory dairy code on the back of the ACCC inquiry that we called and that we actually followed up on. The ACCC recommended delivering a dairy code. The PRESIDENT: Senator O'Neill on a point of order? Senator O'Neill: I think Senator McKenzie is mistakenly answering the question she was asked yesterday. This is an entirely different question that asks her to reveal to the parliament, to reveal to this chamber, why Senator Hanson and One Nation were able to get the minister to bring forward the release of the dairy code when her own colleagues could not achieve that outcome. The PRESIDENT: With respect, your question had a substantial preamble, and I believe the minister is being directly relevant to the question that was asked. I can't instruct her on how to answer a question. Senator McKenzie. Senator McKENZIE: Senator O'Neill, we took to the election to put in a mandatory code for the dairy industry should we win the election. We did. The Labor Party put forward a floor price. Joel had a whole suite of initiatives that he was going to do. They didn't want that. They wanted the mandatory dairy code of conduct and a whole raft of measures that we committed to: legal and financial advice within the ACCC, support for energy efficiency grants et cetera. And I've run through them publicly several times. That code was not to be delivered until 1 July next year. On winning the election we, as a government, as a party, took every step to actually bring forward the release of the dairy code. I actually wrote to my department in August seeking, on the back of the lobbying from my own party members, to bring forward the code. So the department and the Office of Parliamentary Counsel were doing everything they could to turn the nine principles that were agreed by industry into a legal document, and the exposure draft that's out for consultation now with the industry was produced. The PRESIDENT: Senator O'Neill, a supplementary question?