Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

and for workers in businesses right around Australia is to try to ensure that those businesses remain profitable, because if you cannot make a profit you cannot survive and if you do not survive there is no employment and there are no workers. This government gets it in a way that members opposite never did. You cannot have strong communities without a strong economy to sustain them and you cannot have a strong economy without profitable private businesses. We get that; members opposite do not. That is why they loaded up private businesses with the carbon tax, with the mining tax, with endless regulations—

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