James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Okay. The Leader of the Opposition is being circled by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. I do apologise, Mr Deputy President. If I were the Leader of the Opposition, I would be certainly locking the Leader of the Opposition's office because the deputy leader is certainly on the war path. This is a great budget for Australia and it is particularly a great budget for small business. I should remind the Labor Party about small businesses, because they do not know what a BAS is. They think BAS is something on the radio dial in their cars. This is a budget for small businesses across Australia, because small businesses are the engine of the Australian economy, and this budget has done fantastic things to grow the small business economy. We should support that.

Senator Conroy interjecting—

I am being shouted down by the Deputy Leader of the Labor Party in the Senate who has no experience with small businesses. He is probably very good at turning large businesses into small businesses, in terms of when Labor are in power. Through you, Mr Deputy President: that is his experience of small businesses.