Senate debates Nation-Building Funds Bill 2008; Nation-Building Funds (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008; Coag Reform Fund Bill 2008

In Committee


Nick Sherry

Nick Sherry Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law

1:32 pm

Governments are not formed in the Senate. We gave a specific election promise. We have not done this after the election; we put it up there in lights. I remember the announcements made. I remember the discussion, as a member of the shadow ministry in opposition, about this and I remember the announcements about this. It was put up in lights well before the election. It is a fact of life that you lost the election. Learn to live with it. This is an election promise—an election commitment. I want to borrow a phrase from Senator Conroy yesterday—

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