Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Oxley will? I know the member for Oxley and I commend him for his work on the Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, on the inquiry on short selling and on the inquiry in June into shareholder participation. But unfortunately I cannot commend you now because you will try to claim that somehow these errors are not your fault. I know you, Member for Blair and Member for Oxley: you will try to claim that someone else is to blame for this. Perhaps, could it be, the global financial crisis is to blame for your ineptitude in making these mistakes? You will claim that all you did was to vote for Senator Fielding’s amendments. We voted against the amendments because we knew they were flawed, but you rushed the bill.

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