Senator CHRIS EVANS (Western Australia—Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:16): The mining resource rent tax has been subject to a number of processes and all parties involved have been engaged. There was the Argus review and since then there has been specific consultation about the legislation with all the mining interests. The PRESIDENT: Senator Evans, resume your seat. Senator Cormann. Senator Cormann: I rise on a point of order. Again, Mr President, the question had nothing to do with the Argus committee and had nothing to do with the mining tax. It had something to do with an order that was passed by the Senate about the costings of all the promises that the government has attached to the mining tax, an order which the government has completely ignored for the last three months. The question is whether the minister is aware that the government has completely ignored that order and whether that is the new era of openness and transparency that was promised by Prime Minister Gillard 18 months ago. The PRESIDENT: I believe the minister is answering the question. The minister does have 39 seconds remaining. Senator CHRIS EVANS: Mr President, I was just outlining the fact that we have engaged openly with the industry about these issues, and many of them go to the potential taxation revenue and the impost on companies. That has been part of the public debate. In terms of the costings the government is working to, the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook was released on 29 November last year shortly after the Senate order was issued. The Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook is the Treasury analysis of projected revenue and expenditures. That is the key reference point that Senator Cormann ought to turn his attention to. (Time expired)