Mr SWAN (Lilley—Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer) (14:24): What I have been given notice of are the words of Premier Barnett today. This is what he had to say: We know if we get more mining royalty income under the current arrangement, our GST falls, we do know that That is what the Western Australian Premier has said today. The SPEAKER: Order! The Treasurer will come back to the question. Mr SWAN: He has maintained the fiction for the past five days that that was not the case. For the past five days he has gone around pretending that he knew nothing about the consequences of his decision to increase royalties. Mr Pyne: Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The Treasurer was asked whether he or his office were given notice by the Western Australian Premier last week of the intention to raise the royalties on iron ore fines. That was the question, and the Treasurer is not even attempting to answer it. I ask you to draw him back to the question. The SPEAKER: The Treasurer is required by the standing orders to directly relate his response to the question. This is not the same as the standing order in the last parliament. The Treasurer has the call and he will directly relate his response to the question. Mrs Mirabella interjecting— Mr Albanese: Mr Speaker, the member for Indi has made quite unparliamentary comments and I ask that you request her to withdraw. The SPEAKER: The member for Indi? Mrs Mirabella: I withdraw. Mr SWAN: For five days the Western Australian Premier has maintained that he had no knowledge that this would occur if he increased royalties and that he would lose the money. Today he has admitted that they knew they would get less funding by raising their royalties—game, set and match.