Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia—Minister for Finance, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:21): I understand that an independent review into the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was conducted in 2017. At the time, it found that the Australian government and governments of all political persuasions had fully or mostly implemented 91 per cent of recommendations for which the Australian government has responsibility. It also found that 18 partially implemented recommendations have largely been superseded by subsequent government actions and policies, that 78 per cent of the 339 recommendations in total—noting that many of those related to states and territories as the operators of the judicial system—have been fully or mostly implemented and 16 per cent partially implemented, and that around 90 per cent of recommendations relating to the safety of Indigenous Australians taken into custody have been fully or mostly implemented. The PRESIDENT: Order! Point of order, Senator Thorpe? Senator Thorpe: Yes. My point of order is for misleading the chamber. The PRESIDENT: I'm sorry, Senator Thorpe. A point of order can only be about compliance with the standing orders. The merit of answers can be debated after question time. Senator Thorpe: My point of order is on relevance, the relevance being that my question was around, 'What is the government going to do about the recommendations?' not, 'Give me a spiel on what recommendations have been implemented or not implemented and a dodgy, dodgy report,' which they base on desktop only. The PRESIDENT: Senator Thorpe, I've allowed you to make your point of order. There's an opportunity to debate the merit of answers after question time, but I believe the minister is being directly relevant. Senator BIRMINGHAM: The point is that the recommendations have overwhelmingly been implemented by governments of all persuasions, but I acknowledge that there continues to be a job that needs to be done. The PRESIDENT: Senator Thorpe, a final supplementary question?