Shayne Neumann (Blair, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Albanese Labor government is not just getting wages moving and reducing inflation; we're supporting more local jobs in Ipswich, with the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data revealing nearly 20,000 new positions have been created across the Ipswich region in the last 2½ years. The labour force figures released this month reveal that since the Albanese Labor government came in we've increased jobs in our region by 10.5 per cent, bringing local employment to 204,000 people.

A number of major employers and developers in the Ipswich region have helped create this jobs boom, including the new Suntory drinks manufacturing facility at Swanbank; the Australian Post, Coles and L'Oreal distribution centres; and Rheinmetall's Military Vehicle Centre of Excellence in Redbank. Rheinmetall is supporting around 600 direct local jobs and hundreds of indirect jobs as part of a major contract for Defence delivered by the Albanese Labor government to produce and export Boxer Heavy Weapon Carrier vehicles to Germany. On top of this, JBS is putting on more than 500 new jobs and another shift from last year at their Dinmore meat processing plant in Ipswich in response to increased global demand for Aussie beef. This is good for jobs in the Ipswich region, and it's what a Labor government does for the people of Ipswich.

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