Julie Owens (Parramatta, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Hindmarsh for moving this motion because it gives me an opportunity to talk for 10 minutes at least on small business, which has been my life. I was a small-business owner for many years and I managed the trade association for small businesses in the recording sector for seven years. I worked with them to develop international markets and to develop the independent charts, which we still use. I have spent a lot of time in the sector. I listen to the rhetoric of the government, almost on a daily basis, and I am still looking for the action that meets that rhetoric. The competition review, for example, which the member for Hindmarsh said would be out shortly was actually out at 11 am today. So far, I have found three pages that actually deal with small business. It seems to be about privatising health and education rather than the many things that small businesses were promised by this government.

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