Jane Prentice (Ryan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is wonderful to have an opportunity to speak again in this place about the government's $5.5 billion dollar Jobs and Small Business package, and I commend the member for Forde on his motion.

This package is unequivocally a good outcome for the 13,000 small businesses registered in my electorate of Ryan, and the more than two million small businesses across Australia. Small businesses with turnover of less than $2 million dollars per annum will benefit from a 1.5 per cent corporate tax cut and unincorporated small businesses will benefit from a five per cent tax discount.

We know that the Labor Party do not want to talk about this package. We know this because no less than the Leader of the Opposition himself stood up in this place on 3 June and moved to shut down debate on the enabling bills immediately following my speech on the bills.

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