Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

You are dead right—we do not want recoupment to be a test that exists. Therefore, consideration and discussion of recoupment as has been played out in section 46(1AB) is acknowledgement of something that we have already dealt with. The coalition has already dealt with this issue. It is done, dusted and finished. It finished last year with an explanatory memorandum and when the coalition moved to the market share test. What you are in essence doing is bringing this monster back into the room. You are not getting it out; you are bringing it back in.