Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Of course, this government is taking measures to strengthen the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct, cracking down on anticompetitive behaviour, increasing penalties and asking the consumer watchdog to investigate.

What has been extraordinary this week has been to watch Senator Nick McKim write the coalition's supermarket policy. What I'm really interested in is: how is it that the party that used to be the party of tax cuts now has Senator McKim writing their competition policy? When did that happen? The Liberal Party used to be a party of people who prided themselves on being economic rationalists and who prided themselves on looking to the market. Now, Senator Nick McKim, I congratulate you. You're writing the alternative government's economic policy.