Anne Aly (Cowan, Australian Labor Party, Minister for International Development) Share this | Hansard source

Though I repeated it three times, I'll repeat it again. There are 800,000 more small businesses since this government took office in 2022. In our first term, we set our priorities for small business, and they were to help them grow and to give them a level playing field. I'll remind the House again, as I mentioned yesterday, that last week I convened our very first small-business roundtable to feed into our reform agenda. I will continue listening to small businesses right across Australia, across the width and breadth of the diverse sectors they represent.

The Albanese Labor government backs small business. Have a look at the members behind me. Small businesses operate in every single city and every single town across Australia, including in the outer suburbs, represented here on this side of the House. We will continue with our agenda to back small business, because small business backs Australia.

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