Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The assertion by the shadow Assistant Treasurer is just more game playing from those opposite to cover up their embarrassment for the fact that they do not have an alternative policy proposition to put to the Australian people about supporting employment and supporting Australian business. We do. We have specific propositions that we have put forward through our Economic Security Strategy and also through our Nation Building and Jobs Plan. We just heard from the Minister for Housing the impact that the first home owner boost is having out there right now on jobs in the Australian economy—a measure which those opposite do not support. So we can subtract all of those jobs that have been created in the first home owners grant flow-through—we can subtract all of those from any record they might have had. What we are getting here is the fact that those opposite do not have a policy alternative. We do.

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