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

Please do not stand up and suggest that I am in some way doing this for any purpose other than proper transparency around large companies. My amendment is a good amendment for public purpose, and to suggest somehow that it might delay the passage of the bill is just ridiculous. All that would happen is that the bill would go back to the House tonight and it could be passed in the other place tomorrow. That could be easily done.

I want to address a couple of points that were raised. Firstly, the minister did table a list of 1,119 companies, as a result of estimates, but I can assure you that at no stage have I received a list of donors from the Liberal Party, as might have been suggested. I concede the minister was unsure about that; I'm just making it clear in her mind that that has not happened. However, in the spirit of continuous disclosure, perhaps the minister might undertake to provide me with the most recent list of financial donors to the Liberal Party.