Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

As Senator Stephens rightly says, it is operating now. I am grateful to the minister for his commitment but it is a matter of curiosity that the tax office is in that parlous a state that it must use ‘snail mail’, as I think it is called. Even people of my vintage are able to operate a computer—reasonably well, I might say. Surely the tax office could. Is there some problem with the funding of the tax office?