Chris Bowen (Prospect, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Every time I think I am not going to make another contribution the minister says something that I just have to respond to. The minister has put the vehicle into reverse and gone down the road at 100 miles an hour. To start with she said: ‘Small business do not want this amendment. We have consulted with small business and they do not want it.’ The Labor Party provided the evidence and across the table she says, ‘Well, they’re not going to die in a ditch for the amendment.’ The situation has changed. Now she is saying that maybe they want it but they are not going to die in a ditch for it. They might not but we will.

Question put:

That the amendment (Mr Bowen’s) be agreed to.

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