Back, Sen Chris

Senator BACK (Western Australia—Deputy Opposition Whip in the Senate) (14:46): Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I thank the minister for the explanation that the tax group was not consulted. Minister, is it any wonder that the business and indeed the wider community now have lost total confidence in this government when, as you say, it failed to consult its own business tax reform group on such an important change in tax collection procedures while at the same time it set ground rules to ensure it was bound to fail on measures to negotiate reduced company taxes in Australia?