Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, I know what they're trying to do.

Just so we are very clear down here: even if I had every youth working in Tasmania, I would still not have enough to pick fruit. You know that as well as I do. You are telling me that I am taking jobs off our locals, but that is rubbish. If you have not noticed, we have a crisis with our youth. They are not working, and that is why I am working very closely with Mr Tudge on that welfare card, so you should be congratulating me, not sitting here taking the absolute crap out of me, Mr Williams. That is what I am doing for you people, trying to sell your welfare card. I am trying to do something.

I have put things out there. I have asked for you people over that side to look at voluntary national service. I have asked for the trade skills to be lifted in this country while you are taking shipping jobs offshore. That is right: the Nationals and Liberal Party are taking the trade skills of our shippers offshore. You are now coming for our truck drivers. Don't you dare criticise me with your crap, because I am not taking it.