QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Mr TAYLOR (Hume—Leader of the Opposition) (14:19): My question is to the Prime Minister. Today we learnt the Prime Minister was forced to step in and clean up the Treasurer's botched ban on small businesses using credit cards to pay their tax bills, just like he was forced to step in and clean up the Treasurer's botched attempts to tax unrealised capital gains and small businesses.

How much more humiliation does the Treasurer have to endure before the Prime Minister puts him out of his misery and sacks him? Opposition members interjecting —