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

The government supports Australia having a competitive company tax rate for the same reason the member for McMahon said in his much remaindered book on the subject. He said it was necessary to keep Australian businesses competitive. That is because if Australian businesses are competitive, then they can create jobs, as they have done. There were 415,000 jobs created last year and over a million jobs created since the coalition came into government at the end of 2013.

In terms of Caboolture Hospital, let's not forget this: as the Minister for Health and Sport has set out already, the federal government is providing record growth in funding to Metro North hospitals in Brisbane, which includes Caboolture Hospital. In fact, the state Labor government's funding has been going backwards. That's the big difference. More dollars from the federal government are going into Caboolture Hospital at record levels. Labor's truck, which is going around the Longman electorate, says that the federal government is cutting funding to Caboolture Hospital—that is a lie. It doesn't matter how many times that lying truck goes around the block; it will not make that lie a truth.

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