Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Has the government backed down on these budget measures because it realises the error of its ways, and that the doubling of the withholding tax on managed investment trusts, for example, was bad for the economy, or because the Greens and others told the government they would not vote for them?