Senator CORMANN (Western Australia—Leader of the Government in the Senate, Minister for Finance, Special Minister of State and Vice-President of the Executive Council) (14:05): Senator Wong is quite right. My views on this are well and truly on the public record. Whatever your view on the substance of this argument, I don't think that there is anyone in this chamber that doubts my commitment to securing the passage of a lower, globally more competitive business tax rate. I think everyone in this chamber knows, or at least should know, that I passionately believe that to protect— Honourable senators interjecting— Senator CORMANN: I think that everyone in this chamber knows very well that I'm committed to securing the best possible opportunity for working families around Australia to get ahead by making sure that the businesses that employ them have the best possible opportunity to be viable, competitive and profitable into the future. Labor is quite happy to stand up for the big end of town overseas at the expense of businesses here in Australia. They're quite happy to export Australian jobs into other parts of the world. That's fine. Labor can continue to defend that in the court of public opinion. We are standing up for working Australians.