Senate debates Bills

Tax Laws Amendment (Combating Multinational Tax Avoidance) Bill 2015; In Committee


Stephen Conroy

Stephen Conroy Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate

5:18 pm

fabricated—no, no; his seat.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: I think that is a fair request of you, Senator Heffernan. Would you move over to your seat. Senator Conroy is being distracted, and the last thing we need is a furthering of his distraction. Senator Conroy, please proceed.

Thank you, Mr Temporary Chairman.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: Senator Heffernan! Would you please go over to your seat. In the meantime you are disrupting proceedings.

He is disrupting deliberately, but ask him to sit down.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: Senator Conroy, proceed.

So the Greens know full well—particularly Senator Whish-Wilson, who has incorrectly stated that he was in the chair, knows full well—that he actually asked Labor to help bring the vote on. And then the bill collapsed—actually, a bill collapsed, and it was brought on suddenly—

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