Senate debates
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Bills
Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025; Second Reading
10:50 am
Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source
I certainly will. Senator Pocock and I were promised, nearly a year and a half ago now, that we would have a statement from the government saying exactly what a small business is—whether that's 20 people, 25 people. That was an agreement that was done between us and the government. They have failed to enact that agreement. That's the first thing. The second thing is that small business is doing it extremely difficult. I will ask you again to drop the tax rate from 25 per cent to 15 per cent. That is what that's about—which you've done nothing about.
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