House debates Matters of Public Importance

Employment

Thursday, 19 October 2017 House of Representatives

Nick Champion

Nick Champion Wakefield, Australian Labor Party

3:17 pm

I appreciate your intervention, Deputy Speaker. But what do we have? We have the government bragging during question time about their performance, when they have anaemic wage growth and when they have got people under pressure. What will this closure do? What will this unnecessary, violent closure of an entire industry do? It's 13 per cent of our research and development spend alone, with thousands of jobs, but what will they do? They'll say, 'Oh well, things are good. Let's just ignore it.'

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