Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is interesting that we find ourselves in the House this morning debating a range of bills that I think demonstrate Labor’s true colours. The Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill will come forward this afternoon. It seeks to roll back section 46 (1A) of the Trade Practices Act and reinstate the market-power test rather than the market-share test. Fifty per cent of Australians are employed by small businesses and Labor is seeking to roll back a reform that will directly impact them because of the predatory pricing of larger institutions. But it gets better. Not only does Labor want to wipe out small business in that respect; later on today we have the Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Emergency Response Consolidation) Bill 2008 whereby the Labor government is seeking to allow pornography back into Indigenous communities in the north. As if the Little children are sacred report—which showed the direct linkage between child sexual assault and pornography in communities—was not enough, this Labor government wants to allow it back in again. That brings us to our current piece of legislation, the Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 4) Bill 2008, which actually wants to roll back—

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