QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science) (15:17): Senator, I'd just refer you to my previous answer. As I said yesterday, if there's more information that we can provide about when information was provided—I did say, in my previous answer, that, on Saturday, the minister spoke to industry representatives and asked his department to confirm the ships that have been cancelled.

But I do say there are two ways of conducting yourself as an opposition when there is a challenge. You can, as Senator Cash says, ask questions. You can provide positive solutions, or you can just continue to degenerate in the way that you have.

You can continue to hyperventilate and you can continue to run a negative, carping and partisan campaign, or you can front up in the national interest. There's a first time for everything, I suppose. (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Henderson, second supplementary?