Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

You should listen, just once. These families are not going to be able to pay their mortgage and are worried about their kids and their jobs and the future. You might sit there and scoff and laugh about it, but that just shows how out of touch and arrogant how this government has become. These are good, hardworking, honest people who are now shot because this government has no concern for Australian jobs. They laud the free trade agreements—'Look at this. Isn't this wonderful?'—but it comes at the expense of you, me and everyone else who goes out and works. All they are worried about is ensuring that we get this free trade agreement, which means that manufacturing jobs will go offshore. Thank God we have the Labor Party in here and to focus on a positive plan that includes science, technology, engineering and maths. These are the occupations that are projected to grow at almost twice the pace of other occupations. What we need to do is ensure that— (Time expired)

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