Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

What a desperate attempt by the honourable senator! Everybody in this place knows that the worst social indicator is mum or dad or both being unemployed. That is the legacy that the Australian Labor Party left to over one million Australians. I am proud to say that, as a result of 11 years of the Howard government, school leavers at the end of last year were practising job application forms; whereas when we came into government school leavers at the end of the year were practising filling out dole applications. That is the cultural change that we have brought to Australia. We are proud of it, but we need to build on it even further.