Senator SCULLION (Northern Territory—Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) (14:34): Our Indigenous business policies are not only helping create small-business opportunities but getting more Indigenous jobseekers off the misery of welfare and into the dignity of work. Of the thousand new Indigenous businesses, over a billion dollars of contracts— Senator Cameron: Why are you cutting housing funding? Senator SCULLION: You should be ashamed of your record, mate. We've now given Indigenous Australians, under that procurement policy—they're three per cent of the population, but the average workforce across those Indigenous businesses is in fact 50 per cent. Every time we back Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander small businesses, we get more jobseekers into work and contributing to the economy. We support all Australian businesses with a more competitive tax rate so they can keep more of their own money and invest it in their own future. That's going to mean more business activity. There is only one side of politics that has the runs on the board on jobs and growth, and the Australian people know that. (Time expired)