Small businesses are generally more reliant on the award structure than larger businesses, and even more so in the regions. The Nationals do not support Labor’s objective of removing pay differentials between different parts of Australia or the imposition of common penalty rates. Unlike Labor, we understand that strawberries do not only ripen between 9am and 5pm on weekdays; that prawn trawler crews do not come home for dinner every evening; that country shows are generally held on public holidays; and that family wineries do most of their business on weekends.
positive towards law and order and strict law enforcement