Senate debates
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Bills
Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members' Interests First) Bill 2019; In Committee
11:04 am
Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) | Hansard source
I would just note that, once again, it hasn't happened historically—and this was exposed in painful detail during the royal commission, as you well know, Minister. And while we're all hopeful that we may see changes across the board in the culture of financial service businesses, and I do accept that you, as a person, are genuinely interested in seeing that change in culture, I don't share your optimism that that's necessarily going to happen—unless we actually force it to happen.
But in relation to Senator Gallacher's question about the kinds of people we're talking about here, the real people within this cohort who are going to be disadvantaged by this, I want to ask a question as to why this legislation didn't consider keeping total permanent disability as opt out. To give you a little bit of background, there was some very compelling evidence provided to the economics committee around the impact of cancer on young people. So, Minister, are you aware of what the leading causes of death are amongst young Australians? Are you able to give us the key causes of death or serious mortality for young Australians?
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