Senator WONG (South Australia—Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for Finance and Deregulation) (14:37): First, in relation to the mining tax: I know Senator Cormann believes he can get away with not telling Australians what he would cut, by trying to create economic fiction. These are the numbers you would have to deal with if you were on this side of the chamber, so grow up and deal with them. Grow up and deal with them, because that is what is required: a mature and responsible approach to these economic circumstances. The senator is waxing— Senator Cormann interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator Cormann, you are entitled to debate this at the end of question time, but debating it during the time that the minister is answering the question is disorderly. You are entitled to have the answer and the minister is entitled to give it to you in silence. Senator WONG: It is a little like the asylum-seeker issue. The opposition want to pretend that they can fix the budget magically, without telling anybody what they would really cut. In terms of the mining tax, they want to pretend this is an issue only over the mining tax. Let me tell you the economic facts: the mining tax write-down is a fraction of the revenue write-down that is in the federal budget—a fraction. That excuse is not going to work. (Time expired)