Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I think that was a very insipid defence of a poor policy from the Labor leader. It comes as no surprise, really, that the Labor Party, on this the first anniversary of Work Choices, chose to ask a number of questions about what might happen in a year or two years time rather than focus on what has happened in the last 12 months. That would be because their hopes and expectations in relation to Work Choices have been dashed by the figures produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that clearly indicate that the number of jobs in Australia has continued to grow, that the wages of Australians have continued to grow and that industrial disputation is at its lowest level since 1913, the year before the First World War.

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