Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

Our stimulus strategy is expected to support 210,000 jobs. A lot of those jobs have been underpinned by investments in education, whether it be for 100 construction workers in Newcastle, 12 architects in Melbourne, 250 building people in Canberra, including 50 apprentices, or the 50 tradies and 30 apprentices in Port Lincoln. These are businesses that all over the country are making it clear that they owe their survival to the Building the Education Revolution—businesses in Western Australia, in the Northern Territory, in Queensland and in Tasmania. There are building companies. There are service companies. There are manufacturing companies. Our objective has been to create job opportunities, and that is what we are doing. We are achieving that objective. This is an out-of-touch opposition, and it hates these messages. (Time expired)