House debates

Monday, 28 May 2007

Tax Laws Amendment (Small Business) Bill 2007

Second Reading

6:23 pm

Photo of Peter DuttonPeter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

and his esteemed colleague ‘the Academic’, the two of them, were able to come up with as a way forward for small business: ‘We’re here from the ACTU and we’re here from the university and we’re here to help you.’ ‘We’re the champions of small business,’ the Labor Party say, but none of them has been in small business. They are the champions of small business, but none of them has run a small business successfully. Certainly, in the case of 80 per cent of them, none has had the capacity to indulge in a career outside of the union movement. And they are expecting small businesses in this country to believe that they have the capacity to show small business the way forward and to improve the Australian economy.

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