Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The figure was based on a number of assumptions regarding CPI, CPIMV, growth in sales by model, broadly, economic growth and in line with budget forecasts. Senator Abetz was also asking for specific models. You were raising a concern, Senator Abetz, that Senator Xenophon had been privately provided with information that was denied to you. Could I inform you that you requested specific models and specific numbers in sales. Senator Xenophon was talking only about proportions of cars captured in the future and even that, we said, we could not model. The information that Senator Abetz was asking for was not actually provided to Senator Xenophon. It was a different dataset and a different set of information. I thought it was important to correct the record with regard to your last contribution. None of the information that you specifically sought was made available to Senator Xenophon. Senator Xenophon asked if I could confirm that the government has also committed to refer his concerns on the matter of the indexation of a luxury car tax threshold to the Henry tax review. I confirm on the public record that that will be the case.