Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, easy peasy: 'We can walk and chew gum. We'll fix that and we'll do this.' They're doing a lot of things, as we know, strangling the economy and making these things far worse than they ever had to be. We must remember that these are things that weren't talked about at the last election. We are going far further on industrial relations policy than the Australian people were ever promised. We knew it was coming, though, because every time they sit on that side of this chamber or the other place we know exactly what they will get up to, and that is to pay their pieces of silver to their union paymasters to give unfettered access to workplaces to make sure that they can control what is happening in this country and deny people opportunities, because that apparently is a bad thing. It is Labor policies that are driving the economy south. It is Labor policies that are causing the results we are seeing in the national accounts. This government should start to take responsibility and develop policies and plans to address these issues, rather than focus on the past. (Time expired)

Question agreed to.