Lucy Wicks (Robertson, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last week I was very pleased to welcome the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, the Honourable Stuart Robert, to my electorate of Robertson. We visited a number of outstanding Central Coast businesses to hear about their recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and how the Morrison government's budget will help to boost jobs and economic activity in my local community.

One of these small businesses is Daily Dough Co., run by Emma, an incredible 19-year-old who started the business in April last year after she lost her part-time jobs as a result of the pandemic. Emma started by making doughnuts in her home kitchen, and she sold 18 on her first day, through Instagram. Her business has only grown from there, and she now sells over 2,000 delicious doughnuts a day, made from her factory in Wyong, and she employs around 38 people, including her mother, who does the accounting; and her brother and her father, who helped out with the construction and the fit-out of the shop. Emma's passionate about creating opportunities for young people on the coast and employs a number of former schoolfriends at the doughnut shop.

This is a great example of how local businesses are driving our economic growth, generating jobs and boosting recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Morrison government is supporting this through a number of measures announced in the recent budget, including the extension of full expensing to June 2023. This, with our other initiatives— (Time expired)