By Michael Derin

Attending the COSBOA National Small Business Summit earlier this month, I had the opportunity to hear both major political parties address small business owners and supporters.

The opposition leader Tony Abbott used his trademark ‘personality’ to get traction with the audience and on the other hand the Deputy Prime Minister, Wayne Swann, presented with his usual ‘absence of personality’, leaving us staring into our wine glasses.

What it left me with was the question, will either party really deliver for our 1.93 million small businesses and put their issues on the agenda?