Steven Ciobo (Moncrieff, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Small Business, the Service Economy and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I am pleased to speak to this matter of public importance. I note that the Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy was not even able to make it into the chamber for this debate on issues that affect some two million Australian small businesses. I note that the minister that comes to the dispatch box to speak on this is the Minister for Employment Participation. The MPI that is before the House goes very directly to the core of small business confidence in the Australian government and, more broadly, in the Australian economy. It is no wonder that small businesses know that they can have no confidence in this government, no confidence in the Treasurer and absolutely no confidence in the minister for small business.

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