Senator GALLAGHER (Australian Capital Territory—Minister for the Public Service, Minister for Finance, Minister for Women, Manager of Government Business in the Senate and Vice-President of the Executive Council) (14:32): I thank Senator Ruston for the question, and I refer her back to my statement, where I have made it clear that I received information several days before the first public reports went to air. I did nothing with that information—absolutely nothing. I was asked to keep it to myself, and I did. I'm not going to stand here and go through private conversations that I had with the person who is at the centre of this at a very, very difficult time in her life—a person who has had her privacy breached in the most egregious way over the last two years. There are, essentially, two things that have been alleged of me over the past week. The first is that I misled the Senate. I dealt with that in my statement today. Senator Reynolds and Senator Ruston were in the room when I explained that. They accepted that two years ago, and not once have either of them raised any concern about that with me. That's the first issue. The second issue that has been running in the media has been around my role in the compensation claim—an issue that has been incorrectly reported. These are the two issues that I have been hounded on— The PRESIDENT: Minister, please resume your seat. Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order on my left. Senator Ruston, were you on your feet for a point of order? Senator Ruston: Yes, a point of order on relevance. I asked a very simple question; the minister has not answered my question in any way. I'd ask you to ask her, in the last 11 seconds, to answer it. The PRESIDENT: Senator Ruston, I believe the minister is being relevant to your question. Minister, please continue. Senator GALLAGHER: Thank you, and I think I've made it clear I am not going to breach that person's privacy any more than it has already been breached. I don't think it's safe, I don't think it's fair and I don't think it's relevant. (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Ruston, first supplementary question?