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

They do not like to hear it. They do not like to hear that real wages in the last 12 months have gone up more than under 13 years of Labor. They do not like to hear that 263,000 new jobs have been created in the last 12 months; nearly 90 per cent of those jobs are full time. They do not like to hear that the unemployment rate is 4.6 per cent, at near record lows. They do not like to hear that the level of industrial disputation in Australia today is at its lowest level since records were first kept in 1913. They do not like to hear that the workers are better off under our laws than they would be under the Labor Party.

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