Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

At a meeting of the state treasurers in Cairns on Friday, the two states that wanted to sign up first are Labor states—South Australia and the ACT. The treasurer of South Australia could not get his pen on the table fast enough. He wanted to sign up to the deal, and he wanted to make it retrospective—he wanted to cover all the other things as well. And of course the treasurer of the ACT, who is a member of the Labor Party, is the same—he wants to be there signing.

Mr Champion interjecting—

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