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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. The minister is right, I was reading. I can read, and I can also count. I refer the minister to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Small Business Pre-Election Survey, which reported that 63 per cent of small businesses nominated abolition of the carbon tax as the most important thing the government could do to help their small business—63 per cent. Why won't the government rescind the planned five per cent increase in the carbon tax due next Monday in order to give small business some help—or do we have to wait for tomorrow morning's ballot?