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

A couple of months ago, all the questions that were coming from the other side of the chamber, from the Liberal Party, concerned the Building the Education Revolution, but they have dried up. What we are now seeing are all the newspaper clippings and articles talking about the good news coming out of the Building the Education Revolution. The Narrandera Argus said:

PCR Building Services Director Peter Piltz said that without the government stimulus he would have been cutting jobs.

“This government work came at just the right time for us and everyone else in the construction industry,” Mr Piltz said.

“We were looking at putting people off but now we can put more on.”

Similarly, the Illawarra Mercury reported that the managing director, Joe Cachia, from Mount Kembla company Piruse Constructions had said:

Without the stimulus money, the building industry is dead.

That is what the government is doing—supporting jobs. The opposition has no plan for jobs. (Time expired)