Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

He was; he was fantastic. He, like many others, recognises how important it is to free the shackles from business and enterprise, remove regulation, reduce the burden of red and green tape and get rid of taxes. As the Prime Minister said a little bit earlier—it is graphic but it is real—today, we have a bonfire of regulation. Fifty thousand pages from the statute books are being brought to an end—

Mr Perrett interjecting—

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