Mr CIOBO (Moncrieff—Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade and Investment) (15:25): I take this opportunity to congratulate you, Mr Speaker, on your appointment. Once again we hear the Labor Party making all sorts of charges against the government and making all sorts of claims about how the Chinese FTA is going to be bad for Australian workers and about how Labor are so genuinely concerned about the unemployment rate and about jobs for Australians. Once again with Labor, there is a difference between what they say and what they do. Labor, time and time again, come in here and wring their hands and claim the sky is going to fall in, that the government has sold out Australian workers and that only Labor can be trusted with the future of Aussie workers. In reality, there form is so very different. In reality, the facts never actually back up the hollow rhetoric that we hear from the opposition leader or, more broadly, from the Labor Party. The fundamental facts prove in a comprehensive way that Labor's form when it comes to looking after Aussie workers is pathetic. Labor's form in government saw the unemployment rate go up, not go down. Labor's form in government saw them preside over the loss of some 200,000 jobs. That was Labor's track record after six years. That is before we even start on the situation that Labor left us with with respect to debt and deficit. This MPI today is about jobs. That is a measure the coalition is proudly benchmarked against every single day of every single week. Our track record of standing up for Australians—I have news for the Australian Labor Party—is so much better than theirs. Unlike the Labor Party, unlike Bill Shorten when he was in the role of government minister and presided over a loss of 200,000 jobs, the coalition government in the two years or thereabouts since we were elected have presided over 330,000 new jobs. Mr Craig Kelly: How many? Mr CIOBO: There have been 330,000 new jobs created under the coalition. What is more, when you compare our track records on governing the nation, we have provided steady economic stewardship. When you talk about creating the right environment for Australian businesses to get out there and employ people, this is a government that have recently invested $5.5 billion in the biggest small business package this country has ever seen. This government believes in the ability of the small business sector to drive the Australian economy—so much so that it has been able to create a job creation rate that is four times the level that was created under the Australian Labor Party. This is a government that has a job creation rate that exceeds that which has been achieved in every single G7 nation. This is a government that has achieved a job creation rate that has been stronger than that of the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. This is a government with form on creating jobs. I say this to the Labor Party: the simple fact is that Aussies know that as a government we have delivered, and we have delivered in spades. We have delivered 330,000 jobs against Labor's loss of over 200,000 jobs. The Labor Party do not want to even look at the facts. They come in and run a nationwide scare campaign on the China-Australia FTA. We see the Labor Party in cahoots with the union movement. Every single one of them sitting opposite are all former members of trade unions, all former union hacks that have gotten themselves into parliament as a direct consequence of preselection votes delivered by Labor union members. That is the reason why the Labor Party supports this xenophobic campaign that is being run by the union movement. It simply comes back to the fact that the Labor Party are so desperate to stand up for the trade union movement that they will fabricate absolutely any charge against the FTA purely for the simple fact that they want to stand up for their union masters. Every single one of these people opposite is in here because of trade union delegates. Mr Champion: That is right; that is exactly right! Mr CIOBO: I am glad that they agree so heartily, because we know who pulls the strings on that side of the chamber. When the CFMEU says, 'Jump,' they collectively say, 'How high?' When the AWU says, 'Jump,' they collectively shout, 'How high?' When the ASU shout, 'Jump,' they collectively shout, 'How high?' The fact is that every single one of them is nothing other than union puppets in this chamber that pretend that they are concerned about the national interest. When it comes to the FTA, you can forgive the fact that the government is a little bit concerned, perhaps even little bit confused, about the fact that the Labor Party like to talk out of both sides of their mouth. We hear that most strongly from the Leader of the Opposition. He is so prone to speaking out of both sides of his mouth that it has actually become his approach to life. We can see the Labor Leader of the Opposition speaking out of one side of his mouth to Julia and a different side of his mouth to Kevin Rudd: 'You've got my support. I am on board with both of you.' And we see it now with respect to the FTA. The simple fact is that the China-Australia FTA provides every single safeguard that has always been in place under every FTA and that continues to be in place today. When the Australian Labor Party stand up and the opposition leader claims that there are not requirements for there to be labour market testing, that is a complete and utter fabrication. When the Australian Labor Party claim that Australian workers will lose their jobs in order for foreign workers to come into the country, that is a complete and total fabrication. When dishonest members like the member for Bendigo claim that, for example, when electricians come along to fix issues in their homes, Aussies cannot trust the quality of the workmanship, that is a complete fabrication as well. Mr Champion interjecting— Mr CIOBO: Let me explain something to the very ignorant shadow parliamentary secretary opposite, because clearly the Labor Party do not understand the way the China-Australia FTA works or the way the IFA works or the way the 457 visas work. So let's make it really straightforward. I will spoonfeed it to Labor members opposite. The fact is that under a 457 visa, in order for someone to come into the country as a foreign worker, they have to satisfy labour-market testing rules. Mr Champion: Yes, because we put them in. Mr CIOBO: Oh, yes—now he says it—because the Labor Party implemented it. So we actually have the Labor Party now saying, 'Yes, we concede that there is labour-market testing.' We have the Labor Party now saying that they concede that there is labour-market testing. Well, why don't you tell the truth with respect to the claims against the China-Australia FTA? The simple fact is no-one, no foreign worker, can come into this country unless labour-market testing has been put in place under a 457 visa. So wake up to yourselves, Australian Labor Party, because the scare campaign that you have been running is hollow, it is false, and the Leader of the Opposition's claims are nothing more than a fabrication. This government will continue to stand up for Aussie jobs and, most importantly, for Aussie investment. What we know is that the Labor Party will walk away from Australian workers, just like they walked away from the Adani project—a $20 billion project that will create 10,000 jobs, that will provide electricity to 100 million people. Labor walked away from it because they are more concerned and focused on doing what they can to drive a scare campaign, to keep their Greens colleagues onside, to make sure that they do not jeopardise their opportunity to secure preferences in forthcoming elections. Those are the principal drivers for the Australian Labor Party—not the future for one hundred million Indians, not $20 billion worth of investment, not 10,000 jobs. It is all about the Labor Party and their union mates. The simple fact is that Australians know that an investment like Adani—$20 billion, 10,000 jobs—is an investment that requires leadership and protection, and that is what the coalition government will continue to do, in exactly the same way that we will continue to drive investment into this country because we know that investment into Australia creates jobs. For the same reason, we will support with robust policy the strongest small business package and the lowest company tax rate for more than 30 years, because we believe in a bright future for this country, unlike the Australian Labor Party.