Maria Kovacic (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I'm very proud to be a part of the Liberal Party that wants to ensure that small businesses remain in existence so that they can continue to employ Australian workers and that those workers can have the flexibility of choice of working for local Australian small businesses rather than being pushed to institutional and large corporations.

Minister, can you please tell me why we're proceeding with this legislation right now, when there are fundamental questions about its implementation still unresolved?

I speak to the impacts on small business, I speak to retrospectivity, and I speak to ambiguity in the language and unintended consequences. Why don't we just take some time to ensure that we don't have those problems, given that nothing is actually going to change today or tomorrow, as you state?