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

I was asked about guarantees and I am talking about guarantees. The reality of delivery is the greatest guarantee you can have. There were all sorts of guarantees in the workplace legislation of this country when the Leader of the Opposition was employment minister, but that did not guarantee that unemployment did not go to over one million Australians. The only way you can guarantee jobs for Australians, falling unemployment and rising real wages is to run a strong economy. One of the ways you run a strong economy is to have pro-productivity industrial laws.

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