Rex Patrick (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Let's say, a couple of players attempt to contact—maybe they can't contact, as Senator Hanson-Young has suggested—Google or Facebook and they simply don't engage because they are small and perhaps insignificant in the minds of a very large overseas corporation. What if some smaller players—one in your home state, one in my home state—make representations to the Treasurer that they are still finding themselves in a situation where they're dealing with a goliath? Would that fit within these new provisions? Could the Treasurer make a ruling on the basis that these small players can't negotiate, or haven't been able to negotiate, and therefore make a statement that the significant contribution test has not been met?