George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Whish-Wilson, I did think your question went to broader issues than merely whether the Prime Minister would be attending a particular international meeting. As I was saying, Australia has made progress on many of the recommendations of the OECD G20's final report on the base erosion and profit shifting action plan. We have passed legislation which, I am pleased to say, you and your colleagues from the Greens party supported, but which, to their undying shame, the Labor Party opposed, to crack down on multinationals artificially avoiding a tax liability in Australia. We have doubled penalties for multinationals avoiding tax—