Julia Irwin (Fowler, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

You are silent on this issue, member for Lindsay; I have not seen one speech that you have made on this. As for the Prime Minister’s claim that Work Choices will lead to more jobs, the experience in Western Sydney suggests the opposite. In the last year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, unemployment in the Fairfield-Liverpool area has gone through the roof. It was 5.4 per cent last year and has now reached 8.6 per cent.

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