Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Assistant Minister for Trade and Assistant Minister for Manufacturing) (17:01): I recall this debate well. I think I had a minute and—oh, more than I thought. Senator Scarr: More than you need. Senator AYRES: More than I need, and probably more than my colleagues deserve to hear. This motion, as I was indicating a few weeks ago, is in Senator McKenzie's name, and it references transparency and accountability and then goes on to use the phrase 'rank hypocrisy'. I think I indicated a few weeks ago that the gravitational force of that name and those phrases being in the same paragraph together is probably enough to make planets collapse and solar systems collide. Senator Scarr has a contribution here. The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator O'Neill ): Senator Scarr? Senator Scarr: Acting Deputy President: personal reflection on Senator McKenzie. Perhaps, just for the benefit of the comity of the chamber, Senator Ayres might be willing to withdraw. The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Ayres, considering I was reading materials for what's about to come and I wasn't listening as closely I might normally be, I ask you to assist the chamber by withdrawing. Senator AYRES: I'm very happy to withdraw, on a Thursday afternoon, anything I might have said that might offend anybody in any way. There is a high level of sensitivity on the other side of the chamber, I have to say, at any point where there is a collision between the things that they complain about today and the things that they did over the course of the nine sorry years between 2013 and 2022. Those were very sorry years for Australia indeed. Of course, while all the partisan points have been made in relation to Qatar Airways, the government has been getting on with the job. The decision that the minister made in relation to those questions was uncontroversial and, in fact, identical to decisions made by previous coalition ministers before her. The government has considered carefully the issues and has directed the ACCC to continue monitoring developments in the aviation industry, and that will be in the interests of aviation passengers.