Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Dunkley for his question. He knows, like all members on this side of the House, that this place too often gets caught up in the Canberra bubble. It too often gets caught up in talking about rumours, gossip, confected outrage and conflict. This is why Australians switch off from listening to what happens in this place, while those who want to stay fixated on the Canberra bubble just stay in that bubble.

But, on this side of the House, this is what we want to talk about—because this matters and this makes a difference outside the Canberra bubble—and that's jobs. Here's something that matters: unemployment has fallen to five per cent, the lowest level since April of 2012. Here's something that matters: 60,000 fewer people are unemployed today than at the last election. Here's something that matters: 2.3 per cent employment growth. That's up from 1.9 per cent at the last election and from 0.8 per cent when we took over running the Australian economy from the Labor Party. Here's another thing that matters—

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