Kelly O'Dwyer (Higgins, Liberal Party, Minister for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

While I was listening to the contribution by the member for Greenway, it must be the longest agreement with the government going. We have stood in this place and said that we were not only prepared to legislate unfair contract provisions for small business, extending the consumer protection laws to small businesses, but were also prepared, very happily, to listen to the crossbenchers and to listen and discuss the thresholds with those in other parties. This is a government that is committed to listening but also doing, which is why we are bringing forward this legislation and passing it here today.

The member opposite is part of an opposition that had six years in government to do something for small business and actually put forward the legislation that we will be passing in this place today. Unfortunately, they did not do that, but we have. I am happy to stand here on this side of the table to commend the legislation and commend the amendments to ensure that the more than two million small businesses in this country will be able to take advantage of the provisions that we are making available to them today.

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