Bruce Billson (Dunkley, Liberal Party, Minister for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

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There's been a rush of tradies—

Tony's tradies—

buying single cab utes and an uplift in second hand light commercial vehicles.

This is fantastic. We are seeing businesses right across our country taking steps to support the growth of their businesses and helping this nation recover many of the 519,000 jobs lost in small business under Labor. But this is not some kind of one-off Hollywood feature. It is not even a miniseries, and we know how popular miniseries can be. This is as predictable as the nightly news.

We are working as hard for small business every day looking for new policy opportunities—our conviction to get behind those enterprising men and women. This week—hopefully, later today—the Senate will pass our repair and reform of employee share schemes legislation. We have to fix what Labor damaged when in office. This week we will be introducing the unincorporated tax cut for those two-thirds of small businesses that the Leader of the Opposition forgot about in his budget-in-reply speech. We will also be implementing legislation to extend unfair contract terms protections currently available to consumers to small businesses. This is all about energising enterprise and showing that we are working as hard every day for small business men and women as they are. (Time expired)

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