Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

They said to me, ‘We’re not stupid; we know how to deal with this.’ And it worried the hell out of me, I can promise you, because that is the last thing I would want to see. That is why I want to see this measure dealt with properly by the government—not with dishonest numbers, not with selective quoting of figures like you have done over the last 12 months, not with a completely dishonest approach to this legislation. Don’t come in here telling me you have been genuine about this—it was a tax measure dressed up as a health measure!