Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, I can. This is what those on the other side don't understand. Or maybe they do, and that's why they stick up for big businesses and big unions doing deals to advantage themselves. But the current disparity, and we saw it in an article in today's paper, makes it difficult for small businesses—mum-and-dad businesses—which actually employ the majority of Australians to compete on a Sunday with larger businesses who pay their workers less as a result of doing a deal with the unions represented by those opposite. The biggest losers in these situations are actually the small businesses who can't afford to open their doors. When a business can't afford to open its doors, do you know what happens? It actually employs no-one. That is a lose-lose situation for the business and for the employee who could otherwise have been employed.