Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I would advise the honourable senator not to just accept all questions from the tactics committee, and then perhaps, if he is given questions by the tactics committee, to actually listen to the answer, because that question completely ignores everything that I've said so far.

Firstly, $30 billion out of that $65 billion you are backing in. That's No. 1. Let me tell you something else. For you to claim a $65 billion tax giveaway to big business, you must think that 100 per cent of all businesses in Australia are big businesses. Do we think that 100 per cent of all businesses are big?

Government senators: No!

No, they're not. Do we want all businesses in Australia to aspire to become a big business?

Government senators interjecting—