Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Those opposite haven't learnt. They interjected across the chamber. If they don't want attention drawn towards their interjections, which show their real views, they shouldn't make them.

The member opposite, when I spoke about the more than one million jobs that have been created and the lowest unemployment rate of any government in the last 50 years, interjected 'government jobs'. That exposes two things: (1) that they don't understand the jobs that have been created in the private sector and (2) their contempt for people who provide service delivery, including clearing out the waiting lists in Veterans' Affairs that we inherited—people who've served our nation in uniform and who then were denied their entitlements as a result of the cuts that were made by those opposite. That's why we remember that they went to the election saying they would sack 46,000 public servants. Then they said these public servants were all in Canberra, ignoring the fact that public servants in Centrelink, in Veterans' Affairs are out there in their electorates as well as in this electorate, in all of these communities and particularly in regional Australia, performing such an important role.

But of course the Leader of the Opposition, who asked this question, was part of a government that ripped $20 million from Foodbank. Then they have the hide to raise Foodbank— (Time expired)

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