Jamie Briggs (Mayo, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

All we ask from the Leader of the Opposition is that he have a consistent approach. All we say to the Leader of the Opposition is: have a consistent approach. We want not the documentary The Hollowmen that ran on the ABC a few years ago but a consistent approach. We want the 7,000 jobs that this will create.

It gets worse than that. It gets worse than the threat by the Daniel Andrews government to rip up a contract. As the Herald Sun reported last week, there is a risk of employers sacking staff from their jobs because they have not got their work because of this contract's being ripped up. We now see that the Andrews government is threatening to legislate away the contractual rights of this company. Even the Leader of the Opposition would think that that is a step too far. Even the Leader of the Opposition would say that risking the credit rating of the state, with the damage that would do to international investment in our country and the fact that Lend Lease Australia's only investment grade constructor will not work in the state—

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