David Feeney (Batman, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Justice) Share this | Hansard source

It is another layer of red tape for Australian businesses to endure. It is yet another flight of fancy which throws the recent effort of Red Tape Day to the four winds as we watch Minister Keenan now get up and talk about how Labor did a fine thing in 2011 but by his own standards plainly did not go far enough, because a levy for 199 businesses was as nothing for Minister Keenan! He now looks forward to a levy being paid by more than 1,000 businesses. Perhaps in his concluding remarks Minister Keenan can describe his journey to Damascus, his Damascene moment when he realised that Labor's management in this area was superb, when he realised that our public policy principles were first class, when he realised that our bill was something that he could build upon, when he realised that in fact he had been wrong in opposition and now looked forward to recanting those empty words from 2011 and embracing the Labor way!

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