Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Tourism and International Education (Senator Colbeck) and the Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann) to questions without notice asked by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wong) and Senator Gallagher today relating to the Goods and Services Tax.

I just want to go through a little bit of a history here if I can. We must go back to the 1996 election, when the then Leader of the Liberals, Mr Howard, said that he would 'never, ever' introduce a GST.