Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for Lyons for his question, because I have spent time in most other states of the country, including Tasmania, in recent weeks addressing local jobs forums. I have been in Perth, Adelaide, the suburbs of Melbourne and south-western Sydney for the last part of last week and I was in Wollongong yesterday.

I must admit that I did not notice that the Leader of the Opposition was in that part of Western Sydney where I was last week, but I take his word for it that he was there—presumably having been recently issued with a visa to visit Western Sydney and given a Gregory’s in terms of how to get there!

On the question of local jobs and their impact across the economy, the government is embracing a strategy which is based on global action through the G20—

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