Maria Kovacic (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

In the inquiry evidence that didn't move the government to reconsider whether we needed to make any changes to the bill. In relation to productivity, let me think about this. The Productivity Commission was not consulted, there was no modelling done in relation to the impact on productivity and the most significant piece of work the Treasurer has done since the election has been the productivity round table. So we have a piece of legislation before the parliament that we are speaking about now that was subject to an inquiry where a large portion of the evidence suggests there are problems with this legislation, particularly as it relates to impacts on productivity, particularly for Australian small businesses, yet the government is saying: 'There is nothing to see here, everything is okay and there are no impacts from this. We don't need advice from the Productivity Commission and we didn't need to discuss the impacts more broadly.' Can you help me understand how those two fit together, because that doesn't make sense to me at all.