Craig Laundy (Reid, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science) Share this | Hansard source

We have heard the Prime Minister talk about the last week, but in the last month there have been $11 billion worth of budget savings. There have been tax cuts for 500,000 Australians, which stops them moving into the top tax bracket. We have been fixing Labor's VET FEE-HELP mess, there is an enhanced free trade agreement with Singapore and we are supporting the CFA volunteers against the Victorian government and their union mates. Wherever you look in this country and you see a Labor government, you will see up their back the hand of their local union. The unions are the puppeteers of the puppets who sit opposite. If you want dysfunction, dysfunction thy name is Labor. We are getting on with the business of government. You will notice there has not been one laugh in my ten minutes, because I am not interested in spin—I am interested in substance. I am interested in delivering not only for the people of Reid but for the people of Western Sydney.

Ms Owens interjecting—

The plan, member for Parramatta, has delivered 180,000 jobs in 12 months—many of them in your backyard.

Ms Owens interjecting—

Unemployment has gone up—5.6 per cent. Thank you for reminding me. I did not remember that. This MPI is an absolute joke.

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