Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Emergency Management) (14:42): I could give a short answer, and the answer would be zero because the government has maintained every single dollar of the $120 billion that was contained in the infrastructure investment program we inherited from the coalition. Of course, the problem is that that infrastructure, which was developed by Senator McKenzie and her colleagues with their colour-coded spreadsheets, had blown out by $33 billion. It's an infrastructure program that had blown out from 150 projects to over 800 projects, so it's completely unable to be delivered— Senator McKenzie interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Senator McKenzie! Senator WATT: no funding, no skilled labour, in some cases no business plans and certainly no hope whatsoever of being delivered. It has been interesting this week to hear the different messages coming out of the Liberals and the Nationals because most of the time we hear from the Liberals that we need to cut spending to bring inflation under control, but on the other hand we have the Nationals and some of the Liberals saying, 'Oh no, spend my money, spend more money on infrastructure.' This morning, for instance, Senator Bragg, who we know is auditioning for the role of shadow assistant Treasurer along with half of the other backbench, tweeted that Australian inflation is worse than other economies because Labor isn't running a contractionary budget. The PRESIDENT: Senator Watt, I will draw you back to Senator McKenzie's question. Senator WATT: Senator Bragg and his colleagues want a contractionary budget, Senator McKenzie and her colleagues want us to spend more money on infrastructure— The PRESIDENT: Senator McKenzie, on a point of order? Senator McKenzie: It's on direct relevance. You also instructed the minister back to the forward estimates profiling, and I would appreciate him— The PRESIDENT: Senator McKenzie, to be fair, I directed the minister to the whole of your question. I will remind him once again. Senator McAllister: To the point of order, I would simply observe that Senator McKenzie's question did go to budget matters. The PRESIDENT: Senator McKenzie, as you would have heard, I completely addressed your point of order. Minister Watt, I draw you back to the question. Senator WATT: As I said, the government is preserving every single dollar of the $120 billion infrastructure program that we inherited. What we're doing in the process is delivering more money for a number of states to deliver more infrastructure. In my home state of Queensland, for example, we are providing more than $2 billion of extra funding for infrastructure projects, compared to what was already provided. That will allow us to deliver a number of projects that didn't have the funding that the coalition pretended to provide. The PRESIDENT: Senator McKenzie, first supplementary?