Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Finance and Deregulation) (14:00): Isn't it extraordinary! The first question on the budget and the best the opposition can do is to question a levy which has already gone through this place which they opposed with a real amount of— Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator Wong, if I could just interrupt you for a moment: I need some silence. Senator WONG: A levy which was the subject of an enormous amount of chest-beating on that side and went through this chamber very quietly with the opposition opposing, but not too loudly. What an extraordinary thing! This is a budget which is about bringing the budget back into the black, a budget that is about jobs, jobs, jobs—creating jobs, training people for jobs and getting more people into jobs—and the best they can come with is: 'We don't like a levy to help rebuild Queensland. 'That is the best they can come up with! It is amazing, isn't it? This is an opposition which in government was happy to have a levy to help the sugar industry and happy to have a levy to buy back guns, but they are still fighting an argument on a levy to help rebuild Queensland and other areas of Australia that were hit by a natural disaster. But the most interesting thing is this— Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Senator Wong, I will just get you to sit down for a moment. I understand that people want to debate this issue but, as I point out constantly, the time to debate these issues is at the end of question time when ample time is given for people to put their views forcefully. I need to listen to the answer. I call the minister. Senator WONG: The most interesting aspect of the question is that Senator Cormann does not know how many additional levies and taxes were in his own supposed $50 billion worth of cuts. Remember that the opposition went to the election with a levy to fund their paid parental leave scheme. We know that the opposition have included these sorts of things in the past as savings measures. If you want to apply that rule in terms of savings, your theoretical savings— (Time expired) Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order! I remind senators that it is disorderly to shout across the chamber. I need to listen to the answers that are given. Senator Cormann.