My question is also to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. I refer to the minister's December comment about amending the Qantas Sale Act where he said, 'It would simply be a waste of time and political energy'. He went on to say that this course of action was not favoured by 'the majority of the Australian people'. I ask the Deputy Prime Minister: why is this now the government's sole initiative to assist Qantas?