Bert Van Manen (Forde, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My congratulations go to the outgoing member for Melbourne Ports. I wish him all the best in his future endeavours outside of this place.

On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, I present the report Fairness in franchisingand the Report on the 2017-18 annual reports of bodies established under the ASIC Act. I seek leave to make a very short statement.

Leave granted.

I would just like to take this opportunity to thank the entire committee for what's been a tremendous piece of work. I would like to thank the former chair of the committee, Steve Irons, and the current chair, Michael Sukkar, who is not here. In particular, I'd like to thank the secretariat, so ably led by Patrick Hodder and his team. Particularly, the franchising report is a tremendous piece of work that creates the opportunity for us to see significant improvements in the sector in the years to come. I commend these reports to the House.

Reports made parliamentary papers in accordance with standing order 39(e).

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