Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia—Minister for Finance, Leader of the Government in the Senate and Vice-President of the Executive Council) (14:40): It has not. Indeed, in Queensland some 307,045 payments and grants have been made. In Gympie, that is 8,883 to date, according to the advice I have. Senator Watt interjecting— Senator BIRMINGHAM: The support does not stop there, Senator Watt. The way in which you prey on the vulnerable, the way in which you prey on those who have suffered loss and the way in which you seek to achieve political capital at the expense of people facing natural disaster is disgusting. The PRESIDENT: Senator Chisholm, a point of order? Senator Chisholm: On relevance. This specifically went to those people abandoned in Gympie. I have been and talked to those people. For this minister to treat them that way is absolutely appalling. They're living in tents. The PRESIDENT: Senator Chisholm, that's not a point of order. Minister, you have 18 seconds remaining. Senator BIRMINGHAM: We will continue to work under the established disaster guidelines, providing billions of dollars of support in Queensland and New South Wales in response to these floods, but we won't seek to undertake the type of political grandstanding of those opposite at the expense of the vulnerable.