Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education) Share this | Hansard source

That's right. We banned communism in the 1950s. The minister can't answer the question about what people who are working from home can expect.

An honourable member interjecting—

He hasn't. I think there are some members on the other side who've actually been members of that party in the past. The minister can stand at the dispatch box and yell all he likes at the coalition, feigning his passion for this bill, but what we know he's doing is working on behalf of the unions. They are assaulting entrepreneurialism. They are assaulting businesses that have been built over generations. That's what it's about.

So this so-called closing loopholes legislation equals closing businesses and closing jobs. That's what it should be called: 'the closing businesses and closing jobs legislation'. We are not going to support reforms that will weaken our economy and continue to make a bad situation worse for Australian small and medium businesses.

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