John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Chifley knows better than anybody in this parliament that the unemployment level, despite the great improvement around the nation, is higher in his electorate and we have done something for the people of his electorate. We have, in the words of Tony Blair, given them ‘the chance of a job’. I will always be proud of policies that give to the men and women of Western Sydney the chance of a job. That is why, in the last election campaign when I spoke to the people of Western Sydney in launching the government campaign, the proudest boast I made in appearing to them and asking for re-election of the members representing those seats was that, in the time we had been in government, we had provided to the people of Western Sydney lower taxes, lower interest rates, lower unemployment rates and chances of work that no Labor government could ever dream of, let alone implement.

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