Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Industry) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the fact that the hiring credit will not be paid to employers until February next year. Why won't the Prime Minister support Labor's fix to its legislation so that existing workers don't get sacked or have their hours cut?

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Once again, as I have already said in response to these questions from the opposition—and as the Treasurer has and as the Minister for Industrial Relations has—what the Labor Party is suggesting is simply not true. What the Labor Party has done for so many months now is come into this place, pretend to be supporting the important measures that this government has brought forward to support Australians through the crisis and at the same time seek to have an each-way bet on every single one of them. They seek to both oppose them and support them. Do you know what that means? It means that when you really need the support of people, you cannot count on Labor. You just can't count on them, because you know they will always put their political interests first, to have a bet each way, which is the mode of operation of the Leader of the Opposition. He is the biggest each-way bet in politics.