Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science) (15:01): I am focused on the relationship between energy prices and the future of manufacturing in Australia, absolutely, but a question from Senator Canavan about energy prices really is a bit like the arsonist complaining about how fast the fire brigade arrives, like one of those teenage arsonists with the stopwatch out, worrying about performance of the rural fire service turning up to a bushfire. Senator Cash: Point of order on relevance: personal insults to the person who asked the question is not a substitute for an answer. The PRESIDENT: I'm sure in the spirit of a good chamber and good chamber management, Senator Ayres will (1) withdraw the comment and (2) go back to the question. Senator AYRES: I withdraw it, and I broaden the observation out to what happened after a decade of mismanagement, disinvestment, policy uncertainty and an absolutely scrambled egg of energy policy mess that has left the Australian energy system and this government with an enormous amount of work to do to recover what has happened to energy and Australian manufacturing over the course of that decade. Senator Wong: President, I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.