Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Through you, Mr Deputy Speaker: if the Assistant Treasurer wants to be witty he would need to improve his skill base if he wants to be Prime Minister. I say to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, this is an important piece of legislation; we recognise that and that is why we are not opposing it. But when it comes to some of the amendments, we are on the record as having actively encouraged some of these, and I give credit to the shadow Assistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann, who has been actively engaged in discussion on some of these matters. So we will not be opposing these amendments, because they do represent an improvement on the substantive bill. We will have more to say about the Greens amendment a little later.

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