Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I am, Mr Speaker. In conclusion: ‘Danger, danger, danger, Will Robinson over there.’ I am asked what further support the government is providing to small business. Our nation-building infrastructure investment is supporting local tradies and apprentices, and small business is taking up the small business tax break with great gusto. But the global economy remains weak and fragile, and the road to recovery for small business will be a long and bumpy one. The opposition, including the Leader of the Opposition today, persists in calling for the withdrawal of the stimulus and saying, ‘Isn’t it the case that the current very expansionary setting of fiscal policy is also no longer necessary and possibly imprudent?’ There he is—Major Tom in outer space. There he is—right on the outer reaches of the Milky Way.

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