Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I think Senator Payne misrepresents the posi­tion. As she is well aware, the last COAG Reform Council progress report indicated that good progress had been made on 15 of the 27 deregulation reforms. In fact, they were complete. She rightly raises the other 12 as being outstanding, but they, as I said, are subject to ongoing work and they will continue to be driven by this government. As I said also, the COAG meeting in April will obviously continue that work. I am not sure, as I said, of the detail of the status report, if you like, on those 12 reforms, but they are continuing to be driven. We have made good progress and we expect to make further good progress on each of these reforms.