Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

Rolling back the stimulus now would be disastrous for jobs and disastrous for small business. It would mean small businesspeople like Jim Zuma would be out of a job. I do note that today is the one-year anniversary of the member for Wentworth taking over the leadership of his party, and it has been one year with no jobs plan—one year with no jobs plan! It is not a surprise, because while they have talked a lot about jobs in the past their true intentions on jobs are now coming to the surface. In April the shadow treasurer said:

Every single sinew of the Government’s body must be focused on creating jobs, building jobs.

Just last week, what did he say?

Mr Hockey: How much money needs to be spent to keep people in work?

The journalist: You are saying that it is more important to keep interest rates low than spend money to keep people in work?

Mr Hockey: Yes, yes, that is what we are saying. (Time expired)