House debates
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Bills
Treasury Laws Amendment (Support for Small Business and Charities and Other Measures) Bill 2023; Second Reading
11:57 am
Zaneta Mascarenhas (Swan, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source
I'd like to call the member for Petrie up on a couple of misnomers and fact check him. The thing that I would say is that, when I was campaigning in the last federal election, the three top issues for businesses were skills shortages, supply chains and action on energy and climate change.
On supply chains, what we saw during the pandemic is that the nation was broken because we had nine years of a coalition government that wasn't interested in investing in the skills and capabilities of the nation. The thing that we saw during the pandemic was that we did not have the ability to—
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