Chris Hayes (Werriwa, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying a little earlier, this bill relates to fringe benefits tax changes in order to implement some of the recommendations of the report of the Taskforce on the Reduction of Regulatory Burdens on Business titled Rethinking regulation. Mr Deputy Speaker, the bill picks up some of the recommendations of that report and reduces the regulatory burden on businesses, and that is why I am drawing to your attention the position that small businesses are taking in relation to the government’s industrial relations agenda. They are being forced, through Work Choices, to embark on a pattern of behaviour which they do not want to follow. They are being forced to do this by the government—

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