Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I also refer to the eight employees who were each sacked yesterday from Melbourne company Triangle Cables. Here is the letter dated Tuesday, 28 March that each of these eight employees received, the day after your extreme industrial relations changes commenced. Prime Minister, why didn’t you just sign the letter yourself?

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! In calling the Prime Minister, I will remind the member for Chisholm that questions should be addressed through the chair.

John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have not had the material put to me by members of the opposition, but let me remind those who sit opposite that these sorts of questions were asked 10 years ago when we brought in changes. Here we are 10 years later, with 1.7 million more jobs, real wages having risen by 16.8 per cent and unparalleled wealth and prosperity across the land—and all we get is whingeing from the Labor Party.