Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. I have already referred to the way in which the honourable member defended the independence of the Fair Work Commission and in fact extolled it. The reality is that the honourable members opposite in their focus on workers today should have regards for the 450 workers at Hazelwood who are going to lose their jobs and they should be paying attention to that. We, on the other hand, are providing over $40 million in funding to support enterprise, development, new jobs, new opportunities in the Gippsland area, and the members for Gippsland and McMillan have been working with the government to ensure that that community, which is being hard hit, is being provided with support. What we are also doing is spending $600 million on infrastructure through those areas. But you can see the member opposite has no interest in those workers—none at all.

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