Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

What was this mob opposite doing for six years? If there are such problems, what were they doing for six years? Well, I tell you what—they belatedly woke up to this issue in February of last year. They promised to crack down on R&D tax avoidance or tax minimisation by foreign multinationals. They were so incompetent that they could not manage to get the legislation into the parliament and through the parliament before the election. We took this up.

Mr Conroy interjecting—

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