Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The working men and women of Australia care about their jobs, their job security and the jobs of others. They know that this government is creating and supporting jobs and providing Australians with the skills and training they need to access the high-skilled, high-paid jobs of the future.

Labor understands how to keep our economy strong. But time and time again those opposite have shown that they are simply not up to the job. They are not able to understand the importance of keeping the economy strong. There is nothing more revealing of this than the opposition's failure to get their maths right; they are now planning to cut $70 billion of services—of education and health—from the budget. Australians will want to know why that is occurring. Australians will also want to know how they are going to fund the reversal of their position on super. We now know it is going to cost them $80-plus billion of cuts in services— (Time expired)