Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Senator Conroy earlier mentioned jobs. As the government has now spent $80 billion of taxpayers’ money claiming to create or protect jobs when in fact Australians are losing jobs and unemployment has jumped to 5.2 per cent on the Labor government’s watch, why should Australians then be asked to believe that risking yet another $28 billion for Ruddbank will miraculously shore up 150,000 jobs, as claimed by Treasurer Swan?