Senator WHISH-WILSON (Tasmania) (14:45): The minister may be aware that the International Energy Agency stated last year that, in order to meet our Paris commitment of 1.5 degrees of warming, we needed to leave all new fossil fuels in the ground and stop all new oil and gas exploration. Yet, following that report and statement, your government issued 80,000 square kilometres of new ocean exploration permits to your oil and gas donors. Are you insane? Were you wilfully ignorant, or simply totally corrupted and captured by the fossil fuel industry? The PRESIDENT: Senator Seselja, on a point of order. Senator Seselja: I don't think it's parliamentary to use those kinds of labels and language in a question. It's not an opportunity for a rant from Senator Whish-Wilson, and it is unparliamentary to be applying those sorts of labels in a question. The PRESIDENT: On the point of order, Senator Whish-Wilson? Senator WHISH-WILSON: I asked a question about whether the minister's government was insane, and I don't think that's out of order. I think that's what most Australians feel. In fact, that's what most of the world feels when they look at what you're doing to this planet! The PRESIDENT: Senator Whish-Wilson, resume your seat! I will allow the minister to deal with the question. I believe that, in referring to it generally, towards a political party, it is not out of order; however, the minister can choose to answer the question as he sees fit.