Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

So the payroll tax, you understand, possibly could have an impact on businesses, because they're going to pay more in wages for the costs involved with all this. You could actually drive it up, and instead of putting more employees on, you're actually going to reduce the staffing levels. Has this been taken into consideration? That's what I want to ask—not about consultation. Was this taken into consideration in the bill that if you're going to drive up wages you're actually going to create unemployment, because businesses will not be able to afford the extra they're going to pay in payroll tax. Each state varies in the amount of payroll tax that businesses pay.