Senate debates

Monday, 18 April 2016

Questions without Notice

Multinational Tax Avoidance

2:25 pm

Photo of Peter Whish-WilsonPeter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. The Four Cornersepisode on the Panama papers exposed that Wilson Security has a holding company located in the British Virgin Islands in the same building as the shady lawyers Mossack Fonseca. Four Corners also exposed that the director of this shell company was Thomas Kwok, who was recently jailed for bribery for five years. How can the government justify issuing contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to a company so dodgy that they go to such lengths to avoid paying their fair share of tax? Shouldn't it be a government policy that there are no government contracts for tax dodgers?

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