Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

It is a disgrace, Member for Kingsford Smith. This is a government that sought to cut more than $3 billion from science research and innovation. This is the bedrock forming the platform for future jobs, and it is being cut right now. This makes no sense whatsoever. For example, earlier the parliamentary secretary indicated that it is hard to work out what the jobs of the future would be. Well, no, it is not. What you do is get bodies like the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency, which has in times past, as Skills Australia, done workforce planning for the mining sector, workforce planning for green jobs.

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