Michael Forshaw (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister for Finance and Administration. I ask: can the minister confirm that he has distributed a question and answer document to coalition MPs directing them to talk up T3? Can the minister confirm that this document instructs MPs to spruik the ‘particularly attractive dividend stream for T3’? Has the minister obtained legal advice on whether these claims are consistent with Australian law governing the provision of financial advice? Is the minister encouraging coalition MPs to break the law? Don’t Australians who have already been misled by the Howard government’s incompetent spruiking of T2 deserve to be protected from dodgy financial advice from ill-informed coalition MPs?