Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker—they don’t get out much! My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and it relates to his claims that the government’s so-called Work Choices laws have created jobs. Minister, why is it that 13,000 fewer jobs were created between March 2006 and January 2007, after Work Choices, than in the period between March 2004 and January 2005, which was before Work Choices?

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