Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Member for Chifley, I understand that you are supporting the bill but I have in front of me a list of points in the amendment which I find negative and carping. Let us look at some of them. They include ‘the failure of the government to provide up-to-date demographic information on existing child support customers’. I certainly had that available to me; I do not know why the Labor Party did not have it available to it. Another is ‘the failure of the government to make any attempt to quantify the financial impact of the bill on existing child support customers’. I certainly had that available to me. I saw all of that information, I asked all the questions, and I am sure that if the Labor Party had been interested enough to ask the questions, it would have received the information. It was freely available. That is why I am surprised to see this amendment come forward.

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