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

Repeating a lie doesn't make it true. We know that Bill Shorten thinks that continuing to mislead the Australian people will somehow win him votes. He knows that nearly half of the budget costs of our business tax cuts go to small- and medium-sized businesses, because today none other than Bill Shorten has announced that he's going to whack small- and medium-sized business with higher taxes. And do you know what? He didn't ask a single person in this room whether that was a good idea.