Mr JOYCE (New England—Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development and Leader of the Nationals) (15:01): We know where the regional jobs lie. Do you know what's special about Muswellbrook? It's a mining town. Singleton's a mining town. But I don't know one town in Australia about which you would say, 'That is a renewable energy town,' and that's the— Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Members on my left! Mr JOYCE: That's the ground truthing of it. The SPEAKER: The Deputy Prime Minister can resume his seat. The member for McMahon on a point of order? Mr Bowen: Yes, a point of order on direct relevance. Muswellbrook is not in the Atherton Tablelands. The jobs are in the Atherton Tablelands. The SPEAKER: The Deputy Prime Minister is 29 seconds into the answer. He's entitled some context. I'm listening closely to the Deputy Prime Minister. Mr JOYCE: I'm very aware of Atherton—Tolga, Mareeba. I've spent a lot of time up there—I would suggest a lot more time than the member for McMahon has. But if the member for McMahon is so sure in his belief of the renewable jobs, as he states, then I can understand why he stands by why he would want a renewable windfarm off the coast of Manly. I understand why he'd do that—as he nodded in the previous answer when I asked him whether he'd want that— The SPEAKER: No, the Deputy Prime Minister needs to deal with the question that's been asked, not the previous question. Mr JOYCE: We will make sure that we talk about and are very protective of the jobs that we in regional Australia have now. We are not going to go to the people of regional Australia and tell them that, for the sake of the zeitgeist of the Labor Party, we will put them out of a job. We are making sure that we protect the jobs now. If the leader of the Labor Party, the member for Grayndler, wants to stand by those mining jobs, wants to stand by coalmining, let him come to the dispatch box right now and say so. The SPEAKER: The Leader of the Opposition on a point of order? Mr Albanese: I refer to your previous ruling. If the Deputy Prime Minister continues to make assertions and to invite the opposition to take action, then, when we don't, people reading it will assume that that provides an answer in itself—the fact that we can't answer. I'd ask you to consider the ruling—not necessarily now—and report back at another time about this process, because it will disrupt the parliament. The SPEAKER: I won't report back. I can report now. I do say to ministers that they can't invite a member to do something that they're not able to do under the standing orders. They simply can't do that in question time or in any other part of the day, so what I am seeking to do is to avoid that happening. It has happened from time to time since question time was invented, but it's better if it doesn't happen. And I should say that the tone of questions is also reflective of that sentiment.