Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. We're looking forward to our enterprise tax cuts being passed in the Senate in this parliament. The Labor Party has opposed them. It opposed the tax cuts that were passed in the Senate previously, and they are tax cuts that are operating now. Right now in the honourable member's electorate of Maribyrnong 15,937 businesses are benefiting from the tax cuts that have already been passed. What the owners of those businesses want to know—most of them very small businesses, overwhelmingly family-owned businesses—is why their own member leads a party that wants to take those tax cuts away, that wants them to pay more tax. They're starting to see some green shoots in the economy. They're starting to see jobs growth. They're starting to see the better times that the Treasurer promised at the last budget. They're starting to see them, and they want to know whether those tax cuts—

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