Sean Edwards (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question of the minister. On the point of materiality of entirety, as the minister coins it, I refer the minister to the fact that the owner of Pete's Fish Farm described the carbon tax as 'the final nail in the coffin, with no hope of passing on the additional cost to consumers'. Given that the Prime Minister said yesterday that small businesses should just pass on the costs of carbon tax to consumers, does this confirm that Labor does not understand small business or that it just does not care?