Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader for Small Business
4:15 pm
Mr Deputy Speaker, I am seeking indulgence to make a personal explanation.
Bruce Scott Deputy-Speaker
The member for Oxley has the call and will demonstrate how he has been misrepresented.
Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader for Small Business
I have been misrepresented. Unfortunately, just earlier, the Minister for Small Business claimed that I put out a media release that said, 'If tax cut couldn't go to everybody, then it shouldn't go to anybody.' That is completely untrue. It is something that the minister has fabricated. What I said was that the government has created more confusion in the way it has introduced its two-tiered tax system and the way that it has done that in relation to incorporated small businesses rather than small businesses which are sole traders for contractors.