Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

I understand why the opposition is sensitive about this. The opposition has allowed the distillers to express their largesse. The distillers will say that we can, at their discretion, keep the $300 million so that they can make billions and billions in profits years into the future. This is hush money and the Liberal Party has fallen for that trick. We are not going to fall for that trick. Because of the Liberal Party, $1.6 billion into the future has been lost. That is not acceptable. We know that Mr Turnbull—

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