Senator ABETZ (Tasmania—Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (14:12): Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer to the minister's desperate attempt to distance himself personally from Mr Obeid and ask: is it correct that he was so keen to have Eddie Obeid on his frontbench that he voted for him not once but twice and sought to dump sitting frontbenchers to make way for him? How can the minister be treated internationally as a person of probity if he cannot tell the truth about his conduct as Premier of New South Wales? The PRESIDENT: The minister can answer that insofar as it pertains to the portfolio.