Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I will be moving an amendment. It is to the Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (Better Targeting the Income Tax Transparency Laws) Act 2015, which passed the Senate a few weeks ago. You can talk about different amendments if you like, but at the end of the day that is what I plan to move an amendment on. And I hear there might be an amendment on an amendment. On my amendment too, that is a possibility.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: Order! It being 10.15, the sitting of the committee is suspended until 11.45 to enable senators to attend Remembrance Day services.

Sitting suspended from 10 : 15 to 11 : 45

The CHAIRMAN: The committee is considering the Tax Laws Amendment (Combating Multinational Tax Avoidance) Bill 2015. There has been one agreed amendment. The question is that the bill, as amended, be agreed to.

The Greens will be moving an amendment, and I understand that there are other amendments that will come before the chamber. Before we move on, I would still like to ask the minister the question that I did not get an answer to from the previous ministers. I ask whether the minister has met with the Family Office Institute Australia, which presented to the Senate committee around the transparency bill that the Greens will be moving an amendment to and whether the minister thinks that kind of activity—that kind of astroturfing, with a front group being set up with no members and presenting to a Senate committee on behalf of who knows—is acceptable.