Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Small Business and Minister representing the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Sherry. Can the minister advise the Senate what priority the Gillard government will give to Australia's small businesses when using the proceeds of the minerals resource rent tax to deliver the benefits of the mining boom to all Australians? How will ordinary taxpayers also benefit from the reforms to deliver a simpler and fairer tax system? What would happen to these historic reforms in the absence of the MRRT?