Senator PAYNE (New South Wales—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Women) (14:47): I must be having hearing difficulties today, Mr President; it comes with age, I'm sure. But let me start at the beginning. I'd be very happy to send Senator Wong the collected works so that she had ready access to a vast range of remarks! In fact, Senator, I'll have it dropped down to the chamber for you any time—and in fact I'll even table it, if that would assist you with your consideration. I think what the Australian government has clearly set out—and, indeed, what the Prime Minister talked about at the Lowy Institute—was prosecuting a case for our national interest, and that includes through multilateral institutions. As you know, the Prime Minister instituted the multilateral audit and asked my Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to carry out that audit. Part of that process has meant examining over 100 multilateral institutions, processes and fora, and that has underpinned everything that we have done. What the audit findings have shown us is the value of focusing on our national interest and ensuring that, in doing so, we work within the appropriate systems to achieve outcomes for Australia in our national interest, which should always be the premise upon which— The PRESIDENT: Order. Senator Wong, on a point of order? Senator Wong: On direct relevance: the question is about foreign state backed disinformation, and my question was why the government has taken until now to act, given the examples we have seen internationally. The PRESIDENT: I have allowed you to restate the question. I am listening carefully to the minister's answer. She has 47 seconds remaining. Senator PAYNE: I was responding, I thought, directly to a number of the observations that Senator Wong made in her question. Specifically, if she wishes, in relation to the question of disinformation, what the government has made clear is the threat that disinformation presents, no matter who perpetrates it, to the orderly provision of information in communities—particularly in the context of a pandemic. The critical impact we have seen—the 131 countries that have drawn together with the European Union on a motion drafted by Latvia on the infodemic—is absolutely symbolic of those concerns and of our concern in relation to— The PRESIDENT: Order, Senator Payne. Senator Wong, a supplementary question?