Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Revenue) Share this | Hansard source

I have just made a very broad-ranging debate much broader. This debate on the Tax Laws Amendment (Repeal of Inoperative Provisions) Bill 2006 is now a very broad-ranging one that goes to just about any issue that members of this parliament want to raise. With this amendment, members should now feel free to speak on just about any issue they wish. We are repealing 4,100 pages of the Income Tax Assessment Act and measures that go to wholesale sales tax and FBT. My second reading amendment makes it even broader. I invite members on both sides of the parliament to be as broad ranging in their contributions on this bill as they wish.

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