Senate debates
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Questions without Notice
Regional Australia
2:58 pm
Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source
We need lower taxes if we're going to keep our businesses competitive. If you raise taxes, investment and opportunities go offshore. Mr Shorten's policies are, no doubt, a win, but they are only a win for businesses in the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan and China. In my former life as a commercial fisherman, we had a bit of a saying: 'A rising tide should lift all boats.' That's exactly why we need the full, legislated tax cuts for all Australian businesses. The activity between big business and small businesses is worth $555 billion a year. If we don't make our corporate tax rate more competitive, we will lose jobs in regional and remote Australia. I will just quote you a bit of a pearl of wisdom:
… any student of Australian business and economic history since the mid-1980s knows that part of Australia's success was derived through the reduction in the company tax rate.
That was from Mr Shorten. (Time expired)
URL: https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2018-06-28.266.1
Referer: None
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Number: 2
Message: include(/srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory
File: /srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/commentlist.php
Line: 107
Source:
105 */
106 public function render($data, $format = 'html', $template = 'comments') {
107 include __DIR__ . '/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php';
108 }
109
Sorry, an error has occurred
We've been notified by email and will try to fix the problem soon!
URL: https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2018-06-28.266.1
Referer: None
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Number: 2
Message: include(): Failed opening '/srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php')
File: /srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/commentlist.php
Line: 107
Source:
105 */
106 public function render($data, $format = 'html', $template = 'comments') {
107 include __DIR__ . '/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php';
108 }
109
Sorry, an error has occurred
We've been notified by email and will try to fix the problem soon!