Fran Bailey (McEwen, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

In the couple of minutes that are left, let me also join in this matter of public importance debate on job security. The reality is that it is the millions of Australian small businesses who employ 3.8 million Australians that understand what this government has done to them and their employees. They gave an indication of it the day before the federal election, when the Sensis survey came out; they said that they were worried about a potential change of government. The Sensis survey in February, the latest one, shows that small business, the major employer in this country, has no faith in this government’s policies. Look at what this government has already done to small business. The now Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, who is sitting there, 12 months ago would visit regional areas of Australia in particular and extol the virtues of the Small Business Field Officer system, and now he has scrapped it.

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