Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The budget’s central task is nation building for recovery. It is a budget all about supporting jobs today by building the infrastructure Australia needs for tomorrow. It is a budget that shows up to 210,000 Australians would be out of work if those opposite had their way—210,000 Australians would be out of work if not for our stimulus and the nation building that we have engaged in. There is no way for those opposite to escape it. You would condemn 210,000 more Australians to being out of work if your policies were being pursued, and shame on you for that! All we have seen from the Liberal Party is their typical opportunism—