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

I thank the honourable member for McMahon for the question—entirely unpredictable, of course! The honourable member for Wentworth is perfectly entitled to make a statement, as he did yesterday, about how we can do better. Do you know what? We can always do better. But I will tell you what—we are doing a hell of a lot better than the Labor Party. Because, when the Labor Party left office, only 2,000 jobs a month were being created in Australia, and at the moment it is 21,000 jobs a month.

When Labor left office, they left a $48 billion deficit.

Dr Chalmers interjecting—

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