Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. To the member who asked this question: it was clear from his point of order that in fact he is making some assumptions about what may or may not flow from a tender process that is underway. I would say to the member that he cannot make assumptions about what might flow from that tender process. But what he can safely assume, what he can always assume, is that this government will support jobs, this government will work with his region to support jobs, this government will work to keep growing the economy so that there are more jobs and, at the same time, we will be there providing households with assistance, because we understand that they are under cost-of-living pressure.

We will leave to the opposition the fear campaigning, all of the game playing, the running around, the stunts—all the other kinds of trite and silly performances that we have seen in parliament over the last week—and we will get on with the job of running the economy in the interests of working people, something that the Leader of the Opposition and his team will never understand.

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