Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

There is something absolutely wrong, very wrong, about businesses using taxpayer funded subsidies to pay huge bonuses to their executives and to pay huge dividends to their shareholders—something so wrong. I'm flabbergasted that you can't see that there is something wrong with that. So the Greens will be supporting this amendment. And I do wish that Labor had supported our amendment to also make sure that companies that have paid huge dividends through this scheme are not able to be part of the scheme. It is exactly the same principle—exactly the same principle. It's obscene for those companies to pay bonuses to their executives and it's obscene for them to pay dividends to their shareholders through taxpayer funded public subsidies. The Greens will support this amendment.

The CHAIR: The question is that amendment (1) on sheet 1107 moved by Senator Pratt be agreed to.