Sinodinos, Sen Arthur

Senator SINODINOS (New South Wales—Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science) (14:44): In the last 12 months, manufacturing employment has gone up. Employment across the economy is going up. We have just had the NAB survey come out today and talk about how these are the best conditions since before the GFC in terms of business confidence and the outlook for investment. We are transitioning the economy to more non-mining investment to take account of the fall-off in mining investment, so I do not accept the premise that jobs are going backwards under this government. They are going up. By the way, we do not just rely on government to create jobs. We create an environment for the private sector to create jobs.