Sam Dastyari (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

And financial products. Ms Halpern is intelligent, articulate and incredibly well informed, but she was taken for a ride by a crook—a crook who continues to play golf around Melbourne, who continues to drive a sports car, who continues to live in a mansion—who has got away relatively scot-free, considering the pain and anguish that has been caused. We need to make sure that we have the toughest, strongest, highest set of standards, so there are no more victims like Ms Halpern in the future. What worries me so much about these proposals is that the exact events that occurred and resulted in people like Ms Halpern being ripped off are the same things that will once again be possible if the minister's reforms are adopted.