Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

If Senator Fielding came in and moved an amendment, that would be his prerogative. My understanding at this point is that what we have is what we will have. In the context of relevance—you have raised the issue and I would contend that Senator Brown’s statement was relevant—there is a change to the tax bonus figure, the amendment we are discussing, but I did say earlier that we have agreed to make a small adjustment to the tax bonus and to the single income family bonus, which was in the amendment already passed. It is in that context, clearly, that there would be a small saving to government, and we have discussed and outlined that. I did want to make it clear that, in making these changes and the small saving to government—we have updated the Senate on that level of saving—there are other—

Progress reported.