Senator IAN CAMPBELL (12:36 PM) —Senator Murray can put on my response what he would like, but if he listened to my response he could not possibly put that interpretation upon it. I did suggest to Senator Murray that we are at the moment dealing with the Financial Sector Reform (Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 1998 . I am not aware that the party that he referred to have a view about the bill or whether they would be capable of having a view about the bill, quite frankly. I certainly have not seen any pronouncements in relation to this bill.

The only economic pronouncement I have seen by that particular party, the One Nation Party, in relation to economics was that the way they would solve the economic dilemmas of Australia was basically to let us all use our photocopiers to print money. Their views on the economy are that you can fix Australia's economy by printing money or giving people two per cent loans. Our way of giving people two per cent loans is to work on inflation and work on the economy and get interest rates down to competitive levels. So I have very little in common with people who would put forward those sorts of things.

Senator Murray, I did say that I hope your question was entirely hypothetical. If you think carefully about what I said, you will know exactly what I meant.