Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

when we came to government, was a pathetic 3,600 a month. Last month we had 38,000 jobs created in Australia.

What is the motivation of the Labor Party? I look no further than Penny Wong, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Penny Wong has been putting out a number of press releases saying that the government is being misleading on the China free trade agreement and she says, 'There is no requirement for labour market testing.' I am a bit perplexed by this. Penny Wong is now the chief critic of the China free trade agreement, but I was sitting next to her down the road when the China free trade agreement was being signed. She was so excited she was throwing a bread roll in the air. She was cheering on the China free trade agreement and she recognised how important it was for the future of Australian workers, but now her language has changed. Why would that be so? I went to her CV and I saw that while Penny was studying she was working for the CFMEU.

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She was admitted to the bar, she continued her work with the CFMEU and she was elected an organiser and industrial official. The old CFMEU—

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