Treasurer Scott Morrison is certainly experienced in defending the indefensible, at least in terms of the Coalition government's policies. He did it in his previous brief of Immigration when he turned back boats carrying asylum seekers and sought to cover the whole issue in secrecy. Now in Treasury, he seeks to defend a patently absurd bill that would exempt Australia's wealthiest private companies from publicly disclosing on a Tax Office register how much tax they pay. He is doing so on purely political grounds, and that makes his actions all the more...
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