David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

That is a very interesting description of what I am reading between the amended clause 58 and the previous, unamended clause 58, because you gave a seven-day leeway. You allowed someone seven days to get their records in order before they were in breach of the section and you did not make it an offence of strict liability. Now you have done that and you have said a person must keep records so that a minute after a transaction or dealing has gone forward they have got to have records. What you have just read out is, may I say respectfully, completely the opposite of what you have achieved here. I am not going to vote this amendment down. I think it is a peccadillo in the scheme of the other sins of this legislation, of which there are many. But can I say, whoever is writing your script does not get it, with respect.