Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia—Minister for Finance, Leader of the Government in the Senate and Vice-President of the Executive Council) (14:11): I have faced enough opposition questions now to know that the context of them can sometimes be distorted in terms of the quotes that might be being used or the basis upon which those quotes are being used. It is, of course, evidence—as I said when I rose in response to the very first question today—that, yet again, those opposite don't come in here to ask policy questions. They don't come in here to ask questions about the issues facing Australians in their jobs and in their lives: the tax that they might pay, the threats that they might face—be they domestic or foreign—or any of those types of challenges. No, they come in just with an agenda of muckraking, of mud throwing— The PRESIDENT: Order! Minister, resume your seat. Senator Ayres on a point of order? Senator Ayres: Self-evidently it's relevance. The question was about why Mr Morrison made a claim that wasn't true, and the minister hasn't remotely approached that question. The PRESIDENT: Minister, I will bring you back to the question. You have the call. You have 16 seconds remaining. Senato r BIRMINGHAM: I don't accept the premise of the senator's question in relation to the assertions he makes. On this side, we're going to proudly continue not to engage in that sort of muckraking but to focus outside of this building, on Australians—their jobs, their families and their lives—and on helping them make— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Ayres, a second supplementary question?