Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:39): Thank you for the question, Senator Stacey. I will just take issue first with the characterisation at the top of your question. It is a serious part— Senator Canavan interjecting— Senator McDonald: It's a fair description. Senator WONG: I'm happy to take the interjection, given what has happened in the China market for people you say you represent, Senator McDonald, since we were elected. But what I would say to the senator is that China is a great power in the world and in the region. There are many areas where we will not agree, but it is the right thing for the— Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Senator Wong, please resume your seat. Order! Before I go to Senator Stacey, this is his first question, and the level of interjection was disrespectful. Please allow the senator to ask the question and hear the response in silence. Senator Stacey: A point of order on relevance. The question was very specific about the return of the port of Darwin to Australian ownership. The PRESIDENT: Senator Stacey, there was a preamble to your question which the minister is entitled to respond to. There were also interjections—I have asked people not to interject—which the minister is also entitled to respond to. I have asked for silence, I expect silence and I call the Minister to continue her remarks. Senator WONG: Actually, Senator Stacey, I was responding to the first part of your question, so I respectfully suggest that I was being relevant. You were dismissive of the Prime Minister's trip to China, and I was saying to you that whether or not we agree with many of the positions of the People's Republic of China—and we don't; we have areas of fundamental disagreement—they are a great power in the world and in our region, and the responsible thing for the leader of the country to do is to ensure that we engage. You would have heard the Prime Minister and I and other ministers speak about cooperating where we can, disagreeing where we must and engaging in the national interest, and that is what the visit was about. In relation to the port of Darwin, the Prime Minister has made clear that we don't think the port should have been sold in the first place by the previous coalition government, and we want to see it return to Australian hands. I think that has been made very clear and public. That is clear diplomatically as well, but those are matters which will go through the appropriate commercial consideration. The PRESIDENT: Senator Stacey, first supplementary?