Sharon Claydon (Newcastle, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thirty-nine members! He spends so much time focusing on those issues that he has forgotten what he is here for. Prime Minister, here is a thought: how about fighting for someone else's job, rather than your own? How about fighting for hardworking Australians; for students, pensioners, unemployed people looking for a break and Indigenous Australians; and for our national future? How about fighting for the Forgacs shipbuilders? How about mapping out a long-term plan for a rolling build of Defence contracts? How about fighting for the lawyers who work for Aboriginal legal services and who now find themselves without jobs, despite record incarceration rates of Indigenous people in this nation? Listen to what these people are saying in the community. How about fighting for our renewable energy industry and our scientists at CSIRO?

Your cuts have led to 161 job losses at CSIRO in New South Wales this year alone. Where is this Prime Minister? Where is the Premier of New South Wales? Can they not make a guarantee to the people of my electorate that there will be no job losses in the CSIRO Energy Centre in Newcastle? No, they cannot, because all they have done on their watch is make cuts to jobs. (Time expired)

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