Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

The current Prime Minister. As grand conspiracies go, this has been about as systematic and effective as the CIA's exploding cigar in Castro's face.

This is not about jobs. We know that the Prime Minister simply and utterly does not have a plan for jobs. What you do when you do not have a plan for jobs is start creating false bogeymen and saying, 'We better be careful. We better be scared. Don't get out of bed in the morning because the Greens are under the bed with this terrible section of the act crafted by John Howard.' The government do not have a plan for jobs. They could have fixed this whole issue without spending months going through legislation simply by asking the department to resubmit the document to the minister. The minister could have just checked, because he made an identical mistake some months ago.

When we talk about the jobs plan of the government, firstly, we know that the numbers are horrific under this government.

Mr Christensen interjecting—

Are you still here, Member for Dawson?

Mr Christensen interjecting—

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