Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Moore for his question and note that unemployment in his electorate is now 2.2 per cent. I say that not just because it is a good figure; I say it because it is great that people have jobs. The coalition believe that the best welfare that you can provide to the nation is the opportunity for members of the family to have a job. We believe that is vitally important. When Mr Keating, as Labor Prime Minister, and the then head of the ACTU did a deal in 1993 to introduce the unfair dismissal laws, they had no regard at all—

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