Mr CAMPBELL —My question is addressed to the Treasurer. I ask: given your frequent assertions that a wide-ranging tax debate with everything on the table is required by your government, why have you given instructions to your tax consultative task force, headed up by Senator Gibson, that they are not to entertain any consideration of the debit tax whatsoever, especially when your correspondence to me and your radio utterances demonstrate you know little about the tax? Have you not misled this House by giving this instruction?

Mr COSTELLO (Treasurer) —No.