Scott Ryan (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Fair Competition) Share this | Hansard source

Given that in 2009-10 there were over 300,000 jobs lost in the small business sector and that today small business start-ups are falling at record rates and small business owners are facing increasingly high operating costs, why is the government placing even more burdens on small business, in particular through the world's biggest carbon tax? Why won't you listen to small business about that complaint?