Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

They are different functions. I realise that the senator, despite the fact that I thought she was going to try and be amenable to resolving this legislation speedily, wants to spend a lot of time on a Thursday night asking questions that she knows the answer to, but they are different processes. There is a very substantial amount of reform in relation to regulation, which includes the Milliner-Borthwick review which I initiated and the COAG process. Those processes are not relevant to the introduction of legislation. The process that is relevant to the introduction of legislation and which goes through a rigorous assessment of the regulatory burden to be imposed is not the task force, it is the Office of Best Practice Regulation and it is the regulation impact statement which is before you.