House debates Ministerial Statements

Economy

Tuesday, 16 August 2011 House of Representatives

Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister

2:31 pm

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Can I say this to the Leader of the Opposition: of course this is question time and this is his opportunity to come in here and make criticisms of the government, and that is appropriate. What is not appropriate is to try and spin decisions that have been made by companies today about Australian jobs and pretend that they are somehow related to the government's plan to price carbon. To do so is completely disrespectful both to those companies and, more importantly, to the workers in those companies—

Honourable members interjecting—

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