Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Corangamite for her question and I will advise the House of the benefits of the East West Link project. It represents 7,000 jobs in and around Melbourne—7,000 new jobs. That is a remarkable figure because, under the coalition this year, there have been 7,000 more jobs created per month in the Australian economy than there were in the last year of Labor, when the Leader of the Opposition was the minister for employment.

Mr Perrett interjecting—

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