Sharman Stone (Murray, Liberal Party, Minister for Workforce Participation) Share this | Hansard source

It was appalling—school retention down six per cent. Labor recently put out a thing they have called the Blueprint for Prosperity. This was just last week. Buried within the prosperity blueprint we have the shadow of an employment strategy. Is this a clear, bold enunciation of policy? Is it a fork in the road? Is it a forklift or a pitchfork? Is there a fork in it? No, no forks. In fact, we have, in the blueprint for employment under Labor, a reprint of Working Nation—the failed, appalling Working Nation which the OECD independently evaluated and whose impact, it said, was ‘strongly negative’. So it is very unfortunate that we are no better off under Labor’s blueprint, it would seem. Those who are unemployed, of course, are in a position in Australia now where they can look forward to work and they can enjoy the prosperity of this nation, and our businesses can get on and grow and prosper.

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