Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The honourable member opposite calls out, 'Rubbish!' I tell you what was rubbish: the rubbish was when the Labor Party shamelessly appropriated David Gonski's name and claimed that their dog's breakfast of inconsistent, contradictory school funding policies was somehow or other the Gonski model. We accepted David Gonski's recommendations, and that's why he stood with me and the Minister for Education and Training when we announced our schools policy.

What we know is that with a strong economy we get more opportunities. Our economic plan that we set out in the budget is delivering that growth: 403,000 jobs, three-quarters of them full time. Overwhelmingly, you're seeing small and medium businesses—the ones that are benefitting from the tax cuts Labor opposed so strenuously and is now committed to rolling back—responding with confidence, offering Australians the opportunity to get started in the workplace. He talks about jobs, or claims to. We delivered jobs: 403,000, the largest number in our history in any given year. That is an achievement of giving Australians the opportunity to get ahead.

What does Labor have to offer us? Billions of dollars of taxes—$165 billion of tax imposed on companies, on businesses large and small, imposed on investors and imposed on families. Every dollar of those taxes is designed and determined to crush incentive, discriminate against hardworking Australian businesses and put Australians out of work. (Time expired)

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