Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will not speak long on this point, because I will speak longer on the amendment that Family First will bring on next, which is to have ‘small business’ defined as 20 full-time equivalents. I think we all pretty well agree around the chamber that small businesses need to be treated specially and differently, so that is not the debate on this point. It is just defining what a small business is, and I will speak on that further. Without pre-empting the will of the chamber, I think we will find that there may be more support for 20 than for 25 employees.