Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The first part of Senator Carr's motion that we are considering today says:

That the Senate—

(a) condemns:

(i) the failure of the Government to:

(A) articulate a comprehensive innovation policy so that Australia has the high skill, high wage jobs of the future, and

(B) fight for Australian jobs …

The two speakers who have spoken best in support of that motion are in fact the speakers from the government. Both speakers have demonstrated that there is in fact no policy; there is no strategy. I cannot say that I did not enjoy Senator Mason going through the very long list of great Labor Party achievements over many years. I can say to him that there are many more achievements than that. But, of course, he only had 20 minutes—he would need several days to list them all. He also talked about the courageous nature of many of those decisions.