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

I thank the member for his question. I can absolutely assure him I take the concerns of Australians seriously, I take the concerns of Australians who want to leave a decent environment for their children and their grandchildren seriously and I take seriously the concerns of Australians who look at the household bills and then look at their pay packets and wonder how it is all going to add up. Because we take these things seriously, we have done a series of things to assist those families. I know it can still be tough, but let us imagine how much tougher it would be for those families if the laws in workplace relations that the member asking the question supports were still the laws of this country and next week’s pay packet was cut from the one of the week before. Of course, we have stepped up to assist working families with the cost of education, with child care, with tax cuts and we have promises to implement—

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