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Monday, 6 December 1999
Page: 11216


Senator SHERRY (5:08 PM) —You are missing the point, Minister. I appreciate that you costed your original ANTS package. Those figures turned out to be misleading in a number of ways, but that is another issue. I do not want to be overly provocative and I do not want to keep the Senate chamber on this legislation for too long. You then did a deal with the Democrats. The document that I have here from 31 May outlines the cost to revenue and the additional expenditure involved in that deal with the Democrats. We know that the transport of goods and services has a significant impact on the cost of those goods. We know that there is an additional cost as a result of the position the Democrats took. Why did you not work out the additional transport costs in urban conurbations and the flow-on consequence for prices in the urban conurbations, however they are defined?