Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Confidence is crucial to our economic stability, to protecting Australia’s standard of living and to ensuring that we make a strong recovery from the global economic downturn. But those opposite now want to pull the rug out from under Australians. They want to wind back the stimulus and destroy the confidence that Australians have had in their jobs since we abolished Work Choices. Make no mistake: our industrial relations system has been supporting both jobs and small business in the face of the global downturn. That is because we killed off Work Choices—until Malcolm Turnbull brought it to life over the weekend. Those opposite and their out-of-touch leader want to destroy the confidence of Australians at a time when we are still putting in place the foundations for recovery. (Time expired)