Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

It is interesting that, when interest rates dropped to record lows, the Liberal Party said that that was nothing to do with the government, but when unemployment moves up it is all the government’s fault. This is why they have no credibility with the Australian public. They are playing politics with the serious impacts of the global financial crisis on Australians. What we are doing is taking every measure we can to try and protect Australian families and Australian jobs. I know, as you on that side know, that Work Choices is one of the things that make Australian families feel insecure. They know that it made their jobs less secure. They know that they had no rights at work. They had no redundancy payments under many of the agreements put in under Work Choices. We are going to abolish Work Choices. We make no apologies for that, and it will be interesting to see whether or not those opposite support us. Australian families want to see the end of Work Choices, and we are going to deliver.