Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I was asked whether all Australians, not just small businesses, should meet their obligations of accountability and transparency. Of course, small businesses should meet their obligations of accountability and transparency, and that is what we are helping them to do. But there should be one rule for all Australians, whether they are small business owners, whether they are parliamentarians, whether they are working Australians or whether they are companies—and that is my point. I am not suggesting that this case was anything but an oversight.

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