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

My question is to the minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. Australians are getting sick of hearing about tax dodgers setting up elaborate schemes to avoid paying their fair share of tax in Australia and elsewhere. British Prime Minister David Cameron is hosting a first-of-its-kind anticorruption summit in London on 12 May. This is a first opportunity for world leaders to meet to discuss the scams exposed in the 'Panama papers' and to discuss the scourge of multinational tax evasion in general. Will Prime Minister Turnbull be attending this summit and will he 'shirt front' David Cameron over failing to crack down on some of the worst tax havens on the planet—the UK overseas territories of the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands—and, if not, why not?