Sue Lines (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

for reducing penalty rates, which just makes life much harder for people. It shows again how out of touch this government is. You cannot take punitive action against job seekers, force them to take an job, reduce the penalties, impose a big, fat new tax through a GST and somehow at the end of that sing Kumbaya, haven't we done well. That is not realistic, and the sorts of measures being proposed by the Turnbull government demonstrate very clearly that it is a government without a plan. It does not have a comprehensive plan. It does not understand what it takes to get a job.

Of course we have not seen good job creation by the Turnbull government. The jobs that are being created are casual and part time. You never hear them say that.