Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Minister for Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Acting Deputy President and colleague, you are Chair of the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, and I want to acknowledge and thank you and the members of the committee for your good work. I also want to acknowledge the important work that my colleague the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Mr Bradbury, has done on this measure and others. This is an important reform. We do not overstate its impact but it is an important reform and should be seen in the context of the total reforms that this government has made to improve competition—effective competition; it is important to add that descriptor—in this area. I commend the legislation to the Senate.

Question agreed to.

Bill read a second time.