Tony Pasin (Barker, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

No, I did not use Wikipedia, but someone on your side obviously did, because the highest recorded number of possible job losses I could find was 90,000. That is a long way from the 200,000 of yesterday. As if we did not learn over the last six years that you cannot count! Bear in mind, politics should be about never forgetting and about learning how to count. Those opposite have obviously forgotten they were in government and they cannot count.

I have a memo to those in the community who manufacture calculators—read the memo. Get a calculator to every single member over there, because they need them and because they cannot count. We are not talking about 200,000 jobs; it is nowhere near 200,000 jobs. But I will say this: if you are interested in these jobs, stop politicising this and get behind us. Get behind the Productivity Commission.

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