QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE › Corporations Amendment (Streamlining Future of Financial Advice) Regulation 2014
Senator CORMANN (Western Australia—Minister for Finance) (14:18): As a very long-serving and distinguished senator in this place, I know that Senator Faulkner is aware that I am absolutely able to table any document I wish to table, on behalf of the government, on Tuesday. Indeed, I am sure if I sought leave to table the FoFA regs on Tuesday, given the enthusiasm shown by Senator Dastyari yesterday— Senator Dastyari: You can table it now! Senator CORMANN: Here he is again, waving around a document he said I was hiding. Given the enthusiasm of Senator Dastyari for me to table those regulations— Senator Kim Carr: Why don't you table it today? Take your chance! The PRESIDENT: Senator Carr. Senator CORMANN: I am sure that on Tuesday the Labor Party, on behalf of the union movement, will facilitate the timely tabling of those regulations so we can comply as a government with all of the necessary legal requirements. I know what the Labor Party wants to do. The Labor Party, on behalf of the union movement and at the behest of the commercial interests of industry funds, wants to put pressure on the Senate—in particular, pressure on the crossbench—to deal with these matters now because they are worried that once people understand what we are doing they are going to change their mind on things. (Time expired)