Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I want to put on the record the fine activities of the Australian Labor Party Family Watch Task Force. It has been travelling around the country, and we have been meeting and talking with people about the pressures that their families face on a daily basis. It should be of no surprise to members or senators that families are doing it tough, regardless of what the government says about a great economy. It is true that most people have a job—in fact, most of them have several jobs—but they are too busy to stop and breathe, and they have a number of significant issues that this government simply does not understand.

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