Guy Barnett (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I can assist the minister by providing the exact quote from the minister from Wednesday, 14 May. I will be seeking leave to table this page of Hansard. In answer to a specific question from Senator Abetz, you said:

We had this expectation that we should go on providing assistance and various other measures to millionaires ...

I seek leave to table that page of Hansard. In so doing, I ask: will the minister now apologise to Mr Seervai and the countless other inventors and other small businesses around Australia whom he categories as ‘millionaires’ when in fact nothing could be further from the truth? I seek leave to table the Hansard.