Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

That is not correct, and I know you're a bit of a public sector jobs snob. I hear it all the time, so I take that interjection. We know you wanted to sack 41,000 public servants, and we saw how that went down. Also, when you demean jobs in the non-market economy—which is what you're doing—you're demeaning everyone who works in the care economy. All of those who work in aged care work in those jobs. They're no good. All those who work in disability, in early education and care or anywhere the government provides support for a program—those are the jobs that you are demeaning every single time you say that. We hear it, and those workers hear it.

We won't let them forget. Every time you stand up here and pretend you care about aged care, health and disability—they're the workers that you're attacking when you say those jobs aren't good enough. The IMF acknowledges the government's—oh, luckily I get two more cracks. (Time expired)