Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Bushby is right to acknowledge that the collateral damage of yesterday's Senate deal will not only hit unemployed Tasmanians. According to BAEconomics, in Western Australia 11,000 jobs will be sacrificed and $25,600 million in cumulative gross state product gains will be sacrificed. In the state of Victoria 15,300 jobs will be sacrificed—and I simply wonder what the Labor leader in Victoria thinks of the deal done by his federal colleagues in this chamber costing 15,300 Victorian jobs. Mr Shorten and his Labor senators, in lock-step with the Greens, have voted to deny 70,000 Australians the opportunity of a job. They chose the Labor Party's welfare over the parliament's welfare and the economy's welfare. (Time expired)