Steven Ciobo (Moncrieff, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

There have been 330,000 new jobs created under the coalition.

What is more, when you compare our track records on governing the nation, we have provided steady economic stewardship. When you talk about creating the right environment for Australian businesses to get out there and employ people, this is a government that have recently invested $5.5 billion in the biggest small business package this country has ever seen.

This government believes in the ability of the small business sector to drive the Australian economy—so much so that it has been able to create a job creation rate that is four times the level that was created under the Australian Labor Party. This is a government that has a job creation rate that exceeds that which has been achieved in every single G7 nation. This is a government that has achieved a job creation rate that has been stronger than that of the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. This is a government with form on creating jobs. I say this to the Labor Party: the simple fact is that Aussies know that as a government we have delivered, and we have delivered in spades. We have delivered 330,000 jobs against Labor's loss of over 200,000 jobs.

The Labor Party do not want to even look at the facts. They come in and run a nationwide scare campaign on the China-Australia FTA. We see the Labor Party in cahoots with the union movement. Every single one of them sitting opposite are all former members of trade unions, all former union hacks that have gotten themselves into parliament as a direct consequence of preselection votes delivered by Labor union members. That is the reason why the Labor Party supports this xenophobic campaign that is being run by the union movement.

It simply comes back to the fact that the Labor Party are so desperate to stand up for the trade union movement that they will fabricate absolutely any charge against the FTA purely for the simple fact that they want to stand up for their union masters. Every single one of these people opposite is in here because of trade union delegates.

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