Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Jobs and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

The evidence is there and the commitments have been made. The biggest risk to Australian jobs is Mr Bill Shorten and the Australian Labor Party. It is a fact that Labor and Mr Shorten have openly declared war on business and, in declaring war on business, on job creation in Australia. Why do we know this? Because, as an election commitment they have promised to increase taxes on small and medium businesses, if they are elected to office. Colleagues, that's 940,000 businesses with a turnover of under $50 million that will actually have their tax rate increased under a Shorten Labor government. Those businesses, like Thermo King West that I visited last week, employ 4.8 million people in Australia. We want to see those businesses incentivised to prosper and grow. Those on the other side are a risk to those businesses.