House debates Questions without Notice

Prime Minister

Thursday, 24 November 2016 House of Representatives

Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Turnbull Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister

3:06 pm

The approach that my investment adviser takes is that, where managed funds have a material interest in a tobacco company, she does not invest our funds in them. However, because tobacco companies are part of the index of many stock exchanges—including Japan and, of course, the London and New York stock exchanges—any fund that has an investment in the index will inevitably have an investment, generally a small one, in a tobacco company.

A very large number of members opposite have investments in superannuation in Australian super. Australian super has a broad range of foreign shares including tobacco stocks and, I might say, including the holding company of 7-Eleven.

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