QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Mr LITTLEPROUD (Maranoa) (14:29): My question is to the Prime Minister. Forty young Australian founders have written an open letter to the Prime Minister saying: 'Rather than back us, the Prime Minister has ambushed us with a massive tax increase, a tax that will hit us, the Australians we hire and the investors who believe in us the hardest. This aspiration ambush doesn't just impact tech startups either.

It impacts every growing business in Australia.' Does the Prime Minister finally acknowledge that his budget of broken promises and higher taxes will hurt Australian small-business owners?