Mr COMBET (Charlton—Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation) (14:51): I thank the member for Wakefield for his supplementary question because health and safety are a very important part of relationships with the manufacturing industry. Mr Pyne: Speaker, a supplementary must follow the answer that the minister has just given and the supplementary question bears no relationship whatever to the answer that the minister has just given. Mr COMBET: Yes, dealing with health and safety is very important in relation to the manufacturing industry and other industries—including the communications industry, in fact. It is very important to deal with these issues of exposure to asbestos, and the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and I in particular, in our previous careers as union officials, had a lot to do with this particular issue, supporting the victims of asbestos, which of course leads to extremely debilitating diseases. Mr Pyne: Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. It is quite clear from the minister's answer that the question bore no relationship whatsoever to the original question, since the original question was about the carbon tax and this is a question apparently about asbestos. The SPEAKER: The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat. The minister will refer his answer to the original question. The minister has the call. Mr COMBET: It is relevant to the original question, particularly the importance of health and safety in these industries and having a track record of supporting people in their jobs and in health and safety—not like those on the other side, who do not have any track record and who come here today asking questions about asbestos that are completely hypocritical. It is total hypocrisy. You on that side of the House have got no track record in supporting people. The SPEAKER: The minister will refer to the original question. Mr COMBET: We know perfectly well where the Deputy Leader of the Opposition was in her previous career in dealing with the victims of asbestos— The SPEAKER: The minister will resume his seat.