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

If he was committed to the debate he would have stayed in the chamber. He would have stayed in the chamber and the member for Bowman would have been in the chamber when we got onto the bayside. The member for Bonner is here with us today, every day, backing small business and her neighbour, the member for Bowman, cannot even last the distance. He had to go out for a break and then I think he came back in—I am not sure; he was probably at the party pies at the airport—because he cannot stay the distance. He will not stick up for small business.

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