Luke Hartsuyker (Cowper, National Party, Assistant Minister to the Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

You will have your chance in a minute, member for Franklin, I am sure. You are not interested in what—

Mr Husic interjecting—

Youth Connections was a failure. I heard the member for Chifley extolling the virtues of Youth Connections. It was an unmitigated failure.

The very subject of this MPI shows that they do not understand how jobs are created in this economy because it is not government that creates jobs, it is the private sector that creates jobs. That is why we on this side of the House are getting the budget back in the black—despite members opposing us at every turn in our efforts to get the budget back in the black. That is why we are investing $50 billion in infrastructure, creating thousands of jobs in the construction phase and creating thousands more as a result of the efficiencies—

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