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

The most authoritative figures come from the ABS, and the ABS figures indicate that, since the introduction of our new laws, wages are up 1.5 per cent, 263,000 jobs have been created in Australia—and nearly 90 per cent of those jobs are full time—and industrial disputation is at its lowest level since 1913. We all know that, when it comes to industrial disputation, because the Labor Party are beholden to the union bosses, they want to see more strikes in Australia, not fewer strikes.

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