John Madigan (Victoria, Democratic Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have a second supplementary question. Does the minister accept that the existing state based cooperative acts and the new national core-consistent legislation make constant reference to Corporations Law, so that in many ways the accountability and reporting provisions for cooperatives are the same as companies and that, in terms of the regulatory compliance accountability, cooperatives are not so different to companies as to exclude them from the Enterprise Connect scheme?