Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Unlike those opposite, we are a government focused on protecting jobs and supporting jobs; and, unlike those opposite, we are not going to try to play politics with industries that are grappling with a high dollar and lower world prices. What is occurring is: those on that side grasp onto any commercial challenge as a result of industry's dealing with a high dollar and world prices being at lower levels, and they try to make political mileage out of it. We are the government that have seen the creation of over 800,000 jobs since we came to government. We will continue to do what we have done, which is to focus on policies which support employment. We are not going to be distracted by the sort of craven politicking around people's jobs that we see have seen from the other side.