Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment Participation) Share this | Hansard source

Can I say, having listened to the contribution by the member for Stirling, that the first job that is at risk is his. If he is trying to prosecute an argument on behalf of the opposition about what the government should do in assisting workers keep jobs and indeed in assisting job seekers to find jobs and that is the best he can do then the opposition is in a whole lot of trouble. The fact is that in the 15 minutes of his contribution today the member for Stirling did not have one idea about what we should be doing in relation to this very important matter—not one idea.

The Prime Minister quite rightly in his statement today made it very clear how significant, how important and how potentially adverse the consequences will be of the global financial crisis across the world and, indeed, in this country.

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