Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I would like to associate the opposition with the remarks of the Minister for Justice. The parliament's member for McEwen, in fact, is not here because the areas very close to where he lives have been subject to these fires. The opposition wishes to record its ongoing gratitude to the CFA and emergency services and for the work of public servants at the council, state and national level for what they do.

My question is to the Prime Minister. In the light of the last answer about SPC, can the Prime Minister explain the difference between his government's treatment of SPC on the one hand and Cadbury on the other?

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Well, they are totally different circumstances. One—

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Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

if I may say so—

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Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We will have some quiet on my left, please.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

One, if I may say so, was a request for business welfare; the other, if I may say so, was a local tourism infrastructure grant.