Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Roberts for that contribution. I am quite happy to engage in a discussion with him in relation to this at a later stage but, given the Senate is about to break to listen to the speech by the Prime Minister of Singapore in the other place, I was hoping that we might be able to bring this debate to a close so that we can facilitate our tax cut for hardworking families.

I have great sympathy for the proposition from Senator Roberts. It is important to get projects like the Adani projects up in order to boost economic growth, so it is a very legitimate point that Senator Roberts has made. In relation to some of the other issues, I suggest that we might leave that for a future debate.