John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I am not familiar with the circumstances of that particular case and, as I have indicated in response to other questions of this kind, I am not, I regret to inform the member for Perth, hardly to his surprise, in possession of detailed knowledge of each and every employment arrangement made in this country. But I am in possession of the broad economic outcomes that have been achieved under this government and I am in possession of all the warnings of doom and destruction, unemployment and industrial disputation that were made 10 years ago when we made some changes. I am absolutely certain that, just as those predictions were incorrectly made and were not borne out by subsequent experience, so it will be that the experiences of the Australian workforce under the government’s new policies will be ones of increasing employment, rising real wages and continued growth of the Australian economy.

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