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

compared to 200 jobs a day under Labor. There are good green shoots before us. Job advertisement levels, as measured by the ANZ, are, as of today, at the highest level in over two years. Job ads are growing at 13.6 per cent over the year. That means more jobs for everyday Australians. Importantly, the Dun and Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey, which was released last week, identified that the outlook on employment is the most positive it has been in over a decade. So job ads—opportunities for jobs and growth—coming out at the moment, from Dun and Bradstreet, from ANZ and from a range of other surveys, indicate that the economy is strengthening. Despite all of that, the Labor Party unfortunately continues to oppose everything we do to try and create more jobs and greater prosperity for the Australian people. I would say to the Australian Labor Party: the best thing that the Labor Party can do for jobs is get out of the way.

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