Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to support the amendment proposed by Senator Joyce. I was not in support of Senator Fielding’s amendments, for all of the reasons that were cited, but I am certainly in sympathy with the principle that we have to keep the small business operators, the franchisees, in business. It is absolutely fundamental, especially coming from rural and regional Australia, as I do. All of Tasmania could be classified as rural and regional.