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

I thank the good senator from Tasmania for the question. As I told the Senate yesterday, there are some great regional variations in both unemployment and the effect that unemployment is having on our community. The coalition have outlined their plan to roll back the stimulus. Their idea is that there is no need for infrastructure to go into regions, but we have seen the response by the Secretary of the Treasury, Ken Henry, that over 100,000 Australians would lose their jobs—