Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Speaker. It's extraordinary that this second sitting fortnight of this parliament has started with the opposition trying to say that all of the problems that face Australia, at the moment, have miraculously happened in the last 100 days! It's extraordinary that you could be in power for nine long years, that you could leave a budget burdened with a trillion dollars of debt, and, with a straight face, one could come into the parliament and say, 'Goodness me, the last hundred days have been bad!' It's honestly like they were sleepwalking through government and have only just woken up, now that they're on the other side of the chamber. If only they had—I don't know—come to the Jobs and Skills Summit, they might be able to be part of the conversation about the plan for the future. If only they as a government had done something about stagnant wages, we wouldn't be the ones who have to act now. But we are and we will.

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