Senator WONG (South Australia—Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for Finance and Deregulation) (14:59): Mr President, we see more of the same of what I was responding to on the first question. We see a coalition senator—generally Senator Sinodinos is a little better than this—suggesting that there is something dreadful with the employment figures in this country. The reality is, as he would know and these are figures from May, the OECD average unemployment is eight per cent, the US is at something over seven per cent, and the euro area is at an all-time high of just over 12 per cent, from memory. Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator Wong, resume your seat. If you wish to debate the issue, the time is after three o'clock when taking note, not now. Senator WONG: Unlike a country like Spain, where we see so many young people facing long periods of unemployment with all of the social and economic dislocation and all the long-term social and economic disadvantage that comes with it, what we see here in Australia is an unemployment rate— (Time expired)