Fran Bailey (McEwen, Liberal Party, Minister for Small Business and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I will just repeat that in case members missed it. These are small business people at the grassroots, and they have said that there would be people who would not be able to be employed if we did not have AWAs. It is little wonder that small business has reacted angrily to the Leader of the Opposition’s proposal. It knows that the Leader of the Opposition does not stand for small business. He in fact has said:

We have never pretended to be a small business party, the Labor Party. We have never pretended that.

Small business certainly knows that.

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