Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Finance and Deregulation) (15:01): I am asked about the bottom line and the bottom line is this: there are 14,000 Queenslanders who are going to lose their jobs as a result of your colleagues, let alone those in the mining sector who on the basis of the comments of the mining companies also have their jobs at risk. Senator Cormann: Mr President, I have a point of order in relation to the requirement for the minister to be directly relevant. How can comments on what may or may not be happening with the Queensland state budget be relevant to a question about the impact on the federal budget in relation to state royalty increases around Australia? I asked a specific question about the impact on the federal budget. The minister did not go anywhere near it. There is no way that you could possibly rule that she was being directly relevant to the question. Senator Chris Evans: Mr President, on the point of order: the minister is being directly relevant. I can certainly understand the fact that Senator Cormann has a glass jaw and regrets asking the question, but the minister is having a great deal of fun and is absolutely relevant. The PRESIDENT: Order! The minister has 41 seconds remaining. I draw the attention of the minister to the question.