Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Can the minister point out to the hundreds of thousands of Australians who marched against his extreme industrial relations laws today where in the government’s 2004 election policy he told working families that he would be taking their job security, penalty rates and family time when he got into office?

Michael Ferguson (Bass, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Michael Ferguson interjecting

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

The member for Bass is warned!

Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

When the Leader of the Opposition addressed a half-empty MCG this morning, he ought to have got one clear message, and that is that this outrageous, ridiculous scare campaign is losing traction with Australian people, because they can see through it. What do they see? They see that jobs are being created in significant numbers in Australia—165,000 jobs since Work Choices came into existence and 129,000 of those full-time jobs. The only words that you never hear the Leader of the Opposition mention in this place are ‘jobs for Australians’. The only job that he is interested in is his own job, and he is not doing too good a job about that either.