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

Here's another thing that matters: 20,300 extra full-time jobs in the month of September, which go into the 1.15 million jobs that have been created since the election of our government back in 2013. That's 150,000 more than were promised. We promised a million, and we've delivered 1.15 million. Why? Because we've been backing Australians in small and family businesses all around this country. And here's another thing that matters: in this parliament, because of the initiative of our government, small businesses and family businesses will be paying 25c tax in the dollar under the plan that we legislated this week.

Our government is getting on with it. Our government is delivering—whether it's for small and family businesses or whether it's delivering the infrastructure that matters—and we are able to deliver because we're getting things done and we are focusing on making our economy strong. I'll tell you what a strong economy looks like: the unemployment rate at five per cent and jobs growth of 1.15 million over the last five years. When you can do that, you can pay for affordable medicines, you can pay for schools, you can pay for hospitals, you can support our veterans and you can support aged care with $1 billion extra every year in investment into aged care. Our government is not stuck in the Canberra bubble like the Leader of the Labor Party. We are stuck in getting on with the job of delivering for Australians.

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