Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Those opposite seem to want to give large public companies a leg up, because the measure as it is being put forward, and sponsored and promoted by those opposite, will allow large public companies to be able to scrutinise the financial matters of these private companies and be able to reverse engineer the negotiating position that they would be able to walk into a negotiating room with and deal with those large companies. So I do not understand why the member would want to give Coles, Woolies, BHP or any of these other companies the opportunity to give them a leg up in a negotiating position.

Opposition members interjecting—

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