Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It is with great pleasure that I rise to speak on the benefits of this year’s budget, or the appropriation bills, for the residents of my electorate of Flinders. In particular I want to look at three areas: the economic benefits, the environmental benefits and the social benefits which have come out of the budget.

Firstly, in looking at the economic benefits, the most important thing to understand is that there has been a drop in unemployment from the period of 1996 to now from 9.4 per cent to 4.2 per cent. So a 5.2 per cent increase in the number of—

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