Mr PYNE ( Sturt — Leader of the House and Minister for Defence Industry ) ( 14:58 ): I am absolutely shocked, as I am sure many other members of this House are, that the member for Corio would have been given a question at all to ask in the House of Representatives—to lead with his rather large glass chin on this occasion. This is the shadow minister for Defence who advised, when he was carried away on the clam bake in Honolulu, that the policy of the Australian government should be: we sail our Navy within 12 nautical miles of disputed territory in the South China Sea. He fell for the old pea-and-thimble trick. Ms Rishworth interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Kingston! Mr PYNE: He was with an experienced journalist, Paul Kelly. He would have sat down and thought, 'I want to get myself on the front page of The Australian.' Paul would have said, 'You've got to say something important, though; we can't just put you on the front page because you're a nice guy, Richard.' So he did! So he said something utterly extraordinary—that we should, rather than calm tensions in the South China Sea— The SPEAKER: The member for Corio, on a point of order. He needs to state the point of order. Mr Marles: The obvious point of order is relevance: who is the boss—you or Marise? Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member will resume his seat. The member for Gorton has already been warned. Members on my left and right! Member for Corio, you cannot ask a question with the number of elements that you did and then try to narrow it after it has been asked, I have to say. The minister is in order. Mr PYNE: Mr Speaker, that was his angry face! We have now seen his angry face. Of course, what really happened after he got carried away at the clambake in Honolulu is he gets back to Australia and discovers he has created a massive storm about Labor Party foreign policy. But, because the Leader of the Opposition is his best friend, he cannot repudiate him. But Penny Wong did not feel that way. Penny Wong did not feel that way at all. Being from the left, being in the centre, she was more than happy to utterly humiliate and repudiate the member for Corio by saying that, actually, the Labor Party's policy was the same as the government's policy—the same as the government's policy. The poor old Leader of the Opposition, the hapless Leader of the Opposition, does not even know what 'representative democracy' is, because he thought the Navy decided whether they would sail their ships within 12 nautical miles of disputed territory, when obviously it is a civilian decision made by a democratically elected government as to whether— Mr Marles: Mr Speaker— The SPEAKER: The member for Corio cannot take another point of order on relevance. There is only one that can be taken during an answer. Mr PYNE: we would change our policy on the South China Sea. Turning to the question, it is absolutely extraordinary, on a serious note, that right now, when our Australian Defence Force is serving in combat in Syria and Iraq, and we have troops in the Middle East, in Afghanistan, taking part in serious operations—members of our Air Force, members of our command, who are putting their lives at risk—the only question that the shadow minister for defence can think of to ask me, the first question he has ever thought of to ask me, is on such a trivial matter as— (Time expired) Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Adelaide! The Leader of the Opposition! Let's let the temperature lower for just a second.