Fran Bailey (McEwen, Liberal Party, Minister for Small Business and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Business is very concerned. Let me say—they might not want to hear it—that Melinda Cilento, from the Business Council of Australia, who holds the position, of course, of the Chief Economist, has said:

... the ACTU was providing far more detail on workplace policy than the Labor Party, which heightened “concerns about the direction of ALP policy”.

In summary, we simply know that this further reinforces what the Leader of the Opposition has said on so many occasions, and I will remind him constantly that the Australian Labor Party has never pretended to be the party of small business.

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