Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Abetz—Mr Murphy in the other place. We know you are always here to help, just like with the Tasmanian opposition. As I was saying, Senator Fielding has caved in. He has put small business in a very difficult position. Yet again we have vague promises about reforms to section 46. Let me give you a track record on this government’s vague promises. I would hope even at this late stage, Senator Boswell, you would understand the importance of this. Just because big business leaned on the small business organisations that had previously opposed this, and in some cases quite simply brutalised them and did them over—