Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, in writing, on 7 September 2012:

With reference to an article in the Australian Financial Review dated 15 August 2012, in which the Minister is quoted as stating ‘the challenges to small business are real but not from industrial relations’:

(1) What are the challenges to small business if not the result of pressures from industrial relations.

(2) Do the challenges include: (a) the 18 000 additional regulations imposed by the Government; if not, why not; and (b) the Carbon Tax; if not, why not.