The Australian Jobs Bill 2013 was one of the speeches I spoke on in Parliament recently. Below is part of an extract of the speech.

 " You certainly do not help Australian workers and

Australian jobs by passing a bill called the Australian Jobs Bill, although we

know that this government has some sort of fetish for Orwellian titles of its

bills. It thinks that by calling it the Australian Jobs Bill that, somehow, this

will create jobs in Australia. The coalition of course rejects such a proposal.

In fact, when you look through this legislation it really gives you the sense

that we are having a bill for a bill's sake —and certainly we have Bill at the

table at the moment, so maybe we are having a bill for a Bill's sake. But we

have grave concerns about this bill, which proposes meaningless changes to the

Australian Industry Participation plan."  Click here to read the full speech.