Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Finance and Deregulation) (14:27): This is the Senator Cormann line, which is: the decisions of state governments are all the federal Labor government's fault. This is your reason for supporting Campbell Newman's job-destroying royalty increase: it is all our fault, and he could not help himself. That is the answer: he could not help himself. I would say on this— Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order! The debate across the front of the chamber needs to cease. Senator WONG: We do agree—and we would be very pleased if the opposition were prepared to agree to this as well—that we need to remove the incentives to increase royalties, and that is why the Treasurer asked the GST distribution review to look at ways to address the issue of states raising inefficient royalties. If the coalition were serious about this issue they might actually approach that review in a more constructive fashion, but I suspect that the day the coalition are constructive is a long way off.