Senator McKENZIE (Victoria—Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience, Minister for Regionalisation, Regional Communications and Regional Education and Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) (14:18): I am sure that the Deputy Prime Minister wants businesses in this country to operate legally and under the law. We want to make sure that we have rewarding, sustainable careers not just in the mining industry, Senator Ayres, but right across the economy in regional Australia, and for people, local workers, to be paid correctly and fairly for the work that they do. That is why, under your Fair Work system, we've done the changes that we have been able to get through in this particular period of government. But we want to make sure that employees are protected, that they are having rewarding careers. The PRESIDENT: Minister, please resume your seat. Senator Ayres, on a point of order? Senator Ayres: It's not remotely relevant. Each of these questions is constructed, as you indicated earlier, quite narrowly. The question was: 'Does the Deputy Prime Minister believe that two mine workers, working side by side, doing the same job should get the same pay?' and she hasn't come close to beginning answering that question. The PRESIDENT: Senator Ayres, you have restated a part of the question. Senator McKenzie, I believe, was being relevant to the question. I will return to Senator McKenzie. Senator McKENZIE: As I stated in my previous answer, the enterprise agreements negotiated in the coalmining industry are signed off by the CFMEU, so if you have an issue with how people are being paid in that area then maybe you need to go see your mates. Your private member's bill is actually discouraging employment right across Australia.