I'm glad to have the opportunity today to speak about what our government has been doing to ease pressures on small business and primary producers, who keep my electorate of Lingiari moving. The remote nature of my electorate means that we rely on small business to make sure that people have enough food to eat, enough petrol to keep driving and places to stay when travelling. Without our small and family businesses, Lingiari would stop and jobs would disappear. Our government knows this and we know how tough it can be for small businesses. We've delivered $3.8 billion in new measures to reduce taxes for small business and made the $20,000 instant asset write-off permanent. In the Territory, businesses are investing in the tools and equipment they need to grow. Recent data has shown that 2,200 instant asset write-off claims worth $47.5 million were made in the 2024-25 financial year in the Territory alone. Farmers are embracing this too. Across the country, agriculture was the largest sector claimed on the instant asset write-off. This is some of the tangible help we're delivering across the country.

The introduction of a permanent two-year loss carry-back arrangement will also help lift some of the pressure off small businesses, who contribute so much to our local and national economies. I notice that the member for Page didn't mention that, when the coalition were in office, they wound back both the instant asset write-off and the loss carry-back introduced when Labor was last in office. I'm glad we've backed in these programs for small business.

We're engaging directly with small businesses, including through the Small Business Consultative Group. We've invested more than $30 million to implement faster payment times. We've changed the procurement rules to ensure government not only buys goods and services from Australian small businesses but also helps them grow. We've boosted the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to ensure a more transparent and effective regulatory framework for the franchising sector. We've invested $2.9 million to assist fresh produce suppliers to understand and enforce their rights under the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct.

I note that October is Indigenous Business Month, which also includes so many small businesses, particularly in the Northern Territory but expanding right across Australia, that are First Nations owned and led. I encourage everyone to support Indigenous businesses wherever they are. I recognise and congratulate the innovation and leadership of those First Nations businesses. If we look right across Australia, one of the biggest small businesses and industries that's coming out is the cloth industry. Certainly that is becoming a big enterprise for a lot of those communities.

I take this opportunity to acknowledge our Minister for Small Business and the hard work that she's been doing in this space. She is an outstanding minister, and I, like all my colleagues on this side, was particularly offended by the comments directed towards her yesterday. Whilst the opposition comes in here to criticise and play politics, we're the party backing small businesses and primary producers, our pastoralists, our agriculture industry and our horticulturists. I know that, in parts of Lingiari, we wouldn't survive without all of those industries, and we need to continue to support them.

I also acknowledge the Minister for Emergency Management, who has responded efficiently and effectively with the Northern Territory government. I don't know if everyone has seen it, but small businesses in Alice Springs have been absolutely smashed over the last week. There have been some terrible storms that that've happened. A lot of people have lost their businesses and livelihoods. There've been houses wrecked. I'm looking forward to going home to assist in a lot of the clean-up. My thoughts are with those small businesses. With the community of Alice Springs, we've had three floods in the last year and now the storms that have occurred over the last couple of days. It's been quite an impact on a lot of the community. The small business community in particular has been hard, but the community has come together.

Alice Springs is a resilient, tough community, and our government will work together with the Northern Territory government to make sure that that community can come back.