Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I was saying that this is a government that will be honest with the Australian people about the outlook for employment. We are being honest with the Australian people about the global financial crisis and the global recession and the fact that our economy is not immune. What the Liberal Party are engaged in here is just a sleight of hand—the sleight of hand that they played every day up till the last election, where they said to the Australian people that Work Choices equal jobs growth and they forgot to mention the resources boom. Now, of course, desperately twisting and turning to justify their support for Work Choices, they are going to pretend that there is not a global financial crisis. Well, this is cheap—

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