Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:13): Thank you, President. Well, I have to say, it takes a certain amount of front to be a member of the front bench of the Liberal Party and ask about internals today, given all the leaking and backgrounding against Mr Taylor that we have seen, and Mr Taylor himself refusing to rule out a tilt at the leadership after the election. In his disastrous interview on Insiders, amongst the many things he did— The PRESIDENT: Minister Wong, please resume your seat. Senator Duniam? Senator Duniam: A point of order on relevance: I wonder if the minister might answer the question I asked. Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: I will direct the minister to your question. But I'm going to ask, once again, for silence, because actually it is very hard for me to hear the minister answering. Minister, please continue. Senator WONG: I acknowledge that. It's simply the reference by a Liberal frontbencher to the issue of internals. At this time it just seemed to be something that really required comment. It really required comment. But what I would say to the senator—and I note that by the second question we seem to be off the budget, which is interesting. But we're here. We hope to have many, many dixers so we can tell the Australian people about not only what the government is doing but what the opposition are doing on the budget and their opposition to tax cuts. This legislation is before the Senate. You've made these points, and I'm sure that these points will be made in estimates and also in the committee stage. You would know that the Prime Minister and Senator Urquhart have made really clear the importance of jobs in Tasmania. You would know that this is something that as a cabinet government we have worked through. You would also know that this is a very specific amendment to address a flaw in the EPBC Act and that Labor Party is not going to stand by and let workers lose their jobs because of a broken law. The PRESIDENT: Senator Duniam, first supplementary?