Senator PAYNE (New South Wales—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Women) (14:23): I thank Senator Polley for her question. As I have previously advised the chamber, what the government has done through a very, very difficult period of the COVID-19 pandemic is to provide record levels of economic support through a range of programs—JobKeeper, in particular, and cash payments of up to $100,000 for small businesses. The outcomes of those payments have been to enable and sustain hundreds of thousands of tourism businesses across Australia and the jobs associated with them and as part of our plan to support tourism recovery, as I've also previously advised the chamber. The PRESIDENT: Order. Senator Polley, a point of order? Senator Polley: Relevance. The minister is not directly answering the question. She can try to scoot around it or put her own spin on it, but the question was very pointed. The PRESIDENT: Order! There may be scooting, but I'll make that observation. I do allow opposition senators to occasionally restate questions, but I am going to draw the line at commentary before the restating, if it comes. Senator Polley, I'll ask you to come to your point of order—I got it to direct relevance and scooting. Senator Polley: It's about relevance. The Morrison government is ending JobKeeper in 52 days, and 60 per cent of tourism businesses are going to go bust. So how many jobs, Minister, are going to be lost—are you going to abandon—with your action by cutting JobKeeper? The PRESIDENT: Senator Polley, this is not an opportunity to add to the question. I'm listening to the minister carefully. In my view, if the minister is talking about support programs to the same sector very narrowly, as she is, I can't ask her in what terms to address the question, but I think she is talking about both employment and support programs to that sector. I will continue to listen carefully. I have allowed you to reemphasise your question, Senator Polley. Senator Payne. Senator PAYNE: Thank you very much, Mr President. Before Senator Polley took her point of order I was going to remind the chamber about the government's approach in this vital sector, which we absolutely acknowledge. In fact, my state of New South Wales has dealt consequentially not just with bushfires but with floods and then with pandemic issues which have clearly impacted the tourism industry; I cite the beautiful area of the Blue Mountains in particular. We're very focused on specific programs to support jobs and businesses in those areas and to support the maintenance and retention of those jobs in those areas. So the Recovery for Regional Tourism Fund is about boosting tourism in nine regions which are heavily reliant on international tourism but, of course, which welcome domestic tourism as well. I have even been through the details of the applications for those programs in my previous answers. I was going to say earlier to Senator Green, but, sadly, ran out of time, that under our Building Better Regions Fund we have earmarked $100 million of specific funding for tourism infrastructure to assist those regions to boost the supply of new, quality tourism infrastructure, to drive visitation and to maintain jobs in the tourism industry in those regions. We are also providing $100 million— The PRESIDENT: Order, Senator Payne. I have Senator Polley on a point of order. Senator Polley: I am taking a point of order, Mr President, on relevance. The minister is still not addressing the question about how many jobs are going to be lost when they cut off JobKeeper. It's very simple. The PRESIDENT: Order. If the minister is talking—yes, Senator Payne? Senator PAYNE: What I'm actually referring to in my response to Senator Polley's question is maintaining jobs in this sector, in direct relevance and response to her question. The PRESIDENT: I was about to say something similar. If the minister is talking about employment in the sector and your question was about jobs in the sector, I can't direct the minister in the terms in which to answer the question. You can debate it after question time. The minister is being directly relevant and I think she had five seconds left to answer—or are we going to go to the supplementary question, Senator Polley? The supplementary.