Bruce Billson (Dunkley, Liberal Party, Minister for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you to the member for Ryan for a great question, and the great work she does for 14,500 small businesses operating in her electorate. We know, as she knows—as we hope most of this House would know—that small business is groaning under the regulatory burden introduced by the previous government. As many as 21,000 new or amended regulations were introduced by Labor in just six years, and we know small business does the heavy lifting in creating jobs and economic opportunities. They do not expect to be the heavy lifters of regulation, red-tape, and compliance burdens in this economy.

We went to the election with a commitment to remove a billion dollars worth of red tape out of the economy, a billion dollars—

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