Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia—Minister for Finance, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:10): I thank Senator Gallagher for her question and the question as Minister for Finance. Indeed, those remarks are remarks that I stand by in terms of the importance of the quality of spending. It is crucial across government that we work always to ensure that government spending is targeted where it's necessary to what is necessary. That's been the approach of our side of politics all along. It was that type of approach in terms of making sensible decisions around budget management that enabled us to create an environment coming into this economic crisis that we face right now that had our budget come back to a point of balance. It was through that careful budget management and that economic management that we ensured that— Senator Wong interjecting— Senator BIRMINGHAM: Have you looked at the previous budget outcome, Senator Wong? In relation to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, this was an important investment made in an important national asset. Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order on my left. Senator BIRMINGHAM: The Great Barrier Reef is a crucial part of our ecology, of our environment and of our tourism industry and, indeed, has been central to commitments that we have made to the world about the management that we apply to the Great Barrier Reef. The support for the Great Barrier Reef Foundation is absolutely about making sure that we get investments ongoing over a period of time across the reef, supporting a range of different measures that will support the health, wellbeing and resilience of the reef through that time. We are already seeing now that funding is being applied in practical ways to support the reef, one of our great and appropriate assets. The PRESIDENT: Senator Gallagher, a supplementary question?