Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, I am seeking indulgence to make a personal explanation.

Bruce Scott (Maranoa, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Oxley has the call and will demonstrate how he has been misrepresented.

Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader for Small Business) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have been misrepresented. Unfortunately, just earlier, the Minister for Small Business claimed that I put out a media release that said, 'If tax cut couldn't go to everybody, then it shouldn't go to anybody.' That is completely untrue. It is something that the minister has fabricated. What I said was that the government has created more confusion in the way it has introduced its two-tiered tax system and the way that it has done that in relation to incorporated small businesses rather than small businesses which are sole traders for contractors.