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

Firstly, I thought that was a very important intervention by some of the most senior business leaders and some of the biggest employers around Australia. The Labor Party doesn't seem to care about jobs. We on this side of the parliament care about jobs. We understand that some of our biggest employers in Australia started as small businesses. Take Qantas, for example. Qantas started with three employees in Longreach, in regional Queensland, and today employs 30,000 people and is engaged in a fiercely competitive industry globally. It is an iconic Australian brand. With your decision to oppose business tax cuts, you are deliberately putting this business at an additional competitive disadvantage.