Ted O'Brien (Fairfax, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question goes to the Treasurer, and it follows the Treasurer's humiliating backflip on his super tax proposal. Can the Treasurer advise the House whose rejection most influenced his decision to dump his tax? Was it (a) the coalition; (b) industry experts and economists; (c) the Prime Minister; (d) his own Labor colleagues and Labor luminaries Paul Keating, Bill Kelty and Peter Beattie; or (e) all of the above?

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