House debates Bills

Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 6) Bill 2021; Second Reading

Wednesday, 25 August 2021 House of Representatives

Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer

5:23 pm

I have just finished advising members of the House that this matter was first announced by the former minister for financial services in July 2017 and announced in such a way that it gave anybody who read that press release the impression that this initiative had already been legislated or it was the intention of that government, in the last parliament, to legislate it in a way that it was made retrospective.

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