Senator CHRIS EVANS (Western Australia—Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:19): I have to give it to Senator Abetz: talk about front! Remember the guy who used to run the Liberal advertising campaign, wherein they spent hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers' money advertising everything under the sun to try and save their political hides? Honourable senators interjecting— Senator CHRIS EVANS: Who remembers Work Choices? Who remembers the Work Choices campaign? Hundreds of millions of dollars— Honourable senators interjecting— Senator CHRIS EVANS: and he gets up in this place and says, 'Have you spent $13 million'— The PRESIDENT: Senator Evans, resume your seat. It is impossible to hear what is being said because of the noise that is coming from both sides. If you want to shout at each other, go outside, but give us the opportunity to listen to what is taking place in the chamber. Senator CHRIS EVANS: I will not be lectured by Senator Abetz, who was in charge of that very grubby process inside the Howard government, where the politics and the polling of the Liberal Party determined the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars on political advertising— Senator Ronaldson: What did you do to the Auditor-General? You are an absolute hypocrite. The PRESIDENT: Senator Evans— Senator CHRIS EVANS: So don't come in here and lecture us about a $13 million education support program, which, by the way, was in last year's budget—not in this year's budget, last year's budget. Get on with the game, Son! The PRESIDENT: Senator Evans, resume your seat. Senator Ronaldson, you've got to withdraw that. Senator Ronaldson: What— The PRESIDENT: You've got to withdraw because I called on a member of the other side the other day to withdraw. You know what you need to withdraw. Senator Ronaldson: In the interest of fairness, I will do so. Senator CHRIS EVANS: So the question is highly hypocritical and just exposes Senator Abetz's performance in this chamber.