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

I thank the honourable member for Durack for the question; I really do. Her electorate is a massive contributor to Australian exports. Over the last few years, we have seen a massive amount of infrastructure investment in her electorate that has helped to facilitate that export growth and help us through some of the toughest days in the wake of the global financial crisis. As I said before, 38,000 new jobs were created in Australia last month—38,000! That is more than 10 times the number of jobs created in one month as were created on average when Labor was in government: 3,600 a month under Labor; 38,000 new jobs created last month under us. You can get that by changing the economic settings away from the protectionist rantings of Labor and away from the focus of Labor on increasing taxes such as the carbon tax and the mining tax and all the other tax changes they made. Obviously, what we have been focused on is getting rid of that regulatory red tape burden faced by so many businesses. Tens of thousands of pages of regulation have been torn up by this government in dedicated repeal days. So when it comes to the recent decision of the Federal Court in relation to the Adani Carmichael Mine in Central Queensland—

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

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