Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

There are a lot of good people from across Australia who have put that idea to us. The Prime Minister is very respectful of good people across Australia putting forward ideas. The government does not just dismiss any idea that is put forward in an arrogant fashion like the Labor Party appears to do.

We have a Prime Minister with a thoroughly bipartisan spirit. He did not want Mr Keating to feel bad about the fact that this is an idea that he has put forward in the past. I would have thought that the Labor Party would be grateful for the bipartisan spirit with which our Prime Minister—