Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for Page for that question, noting that he is also someone who worked in a small business, who comes from a small business family. Of course many small businesses are family businesses. They often employ other members of the family as well as the children and the parents—cousins and aunts and uncles—and those who are not related often become family in a small business. The member for Page knows that. That is one of the reasons why, when we were formulating the recent budget, we were very mindful that if we could put in place measures that helped to strengthen small business—the two million small businesses in Australia—then that would help to strengthen the Australian economy. I am pleased to say that the small business package passed through the House of Representatives today, on time, as it should have—

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