Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Fraser for the question. I appreciated the opportunity to be with him in his electorate only a couple of weeks ago, looking at some of the jobs programs that we've got there, because the first response that comes to workplace relations policies is actually: what's the response that's happening on the ground? We were told the response was going to be a huge increase in unemployment. That's what we were told was going to happen, and now the results are in.

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