Mr HOWARD —I would like to add to the answer I gave to the first question that was asked of me today by the Leader of the Opposition when he asked me about preferences. I would like to supplement my answer by reminding the House that in the Lindsay by-election last year—remember Lindsay, Jackie?—the Australian Labor Party gave its preferences to Australians Against Further Immigration, and this is what Mr Vince Townsend had to say:

The only one that did approach us in regard to this how-to-vote card was the representative of the Labor Party and an arrangement was made that we would not be last on the list with Labor and we have decided to put them in a similar position.

I would also remind the parliament that in the last election there were 13 seats in New South Wales, not just mine—I might have thought they had a particular reason for that—in which the Australian Labor Party gave preferences to the AAFI ahead of the Liberal Party and perhaps other candidates. Those seats were Bennelong, Blaxland, Charlton, Dobell, Eden-Monaro, Fowler, Greenway, Macarthur, Mackellar, Macquarie, Mitchell, Robertson and I think Warringah. It really does expose the humbug.