Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Minister Cormann. Minister, in your government's response to the Harper review, announced this afternoon by Treasurer Morrison, you have refused to back an effects test as recommended by Professor Harper—instead totally squibbing it by washing your collective hands of the issue with a proposal to engage in yet more endless review and discussion. Minister, is this not just a transparent attempt to postpone a decision until after the next election? Do you accept, Minister, that the time for a discussion on an effects test is over and that the time for action has arrived?