Gillard pledges more jobs in a Labour-led government, vows to sustain proven economic policy
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Tuesday that her government is all about job creation and retention and the Australian economy as a whole, as she pointed to Labour's sterling record of economic management, which she asserts could easily speak for itself.
The prime minister stressed that Labour's sound economic policy during the height of the global financial crisis preserved thousands of jobs when the rest of the world were witnessing massive lay offs and prolonged moratorium on hiring.
Ms Gillard said that she intends to keep the momentum her party has started as she decaled that "I am for jobs," which underscored her campaign converging on economic policy that would maintain a strong economy and ensure that jobs would be available for more Australians.
She said that Labour party issued the better economic decisions during the toughest period of the GFC and they would continue to do so as she cited that the federal government's stimulus packages were able to produce 450,000 jobs while countries such as the United States lost up to six million jobs.
Ms Gillard added that there were even instances that some US residents were forced to live on the streets when they lost their jobs and homes as a result of the worldwide financial downturn but she gave assurance that her government would do its best to avoid such things from ever occurring in Australia.
She pledged that with a Labour government leading the country, people are assured of having jobs and even pleasing working conditions as she warned at the same time that the coalition led by Tony Abbot could lead to the revival of Work Choices.
The prime minister acknowledged that Work Choices had been an unpopular venture from a previous government and she vowed that the measure would not see the light of the day in her government, saying that "we don't want to see that in Australian workplaces, it's not the decent thing, it's not the right thing."