Senator CORMANN (Western Australia—Minister for Finance) (14:42): Senator Cameron clearly did not listen to a word of my answer—or he is just reading out the question that was provided to him by the tactics committee without changing his supplementary question. Let me just say it again: we had all of the facts in front of us and we made an informed decision not to provide an ad hoc grant from the taxpayer to a company like Coca-Cola Amatil. We made that decision— Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator Cormann, resume your seat. If those on my left wish to debate the issue, the time for that is after three o'clock. Senator Cormann, continue. Senator CORMANN: Thank you very much, Mr President. We had before us a request from a business owned by Coca-Cola Amatil with a $9 billion market capitalisation, with a strong balance sheet, with all of the cash reserves required to make the investment in SPC Ardmona if that is what they thought was the appropriate thing to do. The government made an informed decision that it is not appropriate for the taxpayer to cross-subsidise these sorts of commercial investments by profitable private companies—and the government will not be changing the decision that we made.