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

We're united on what we took to the Australian people. What we took to the Australian people was an economic plan to create jobs, and that's what's happening. That's what we took to the Australian people. Once upon a time there was a Labor government that actually did believe in creating jobs. It was the Hawke-Keating government. Given he is referring to a comment that was first made by the former Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, I will refer to what the Leader of the Opposition used to say about the Hawke government. He said, in an article quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald, 'The Hawke government had lost touch with people. When they talk about wages and budget deficits, they talk about it like it's out of a text box. They appear to have an absolute contempt for working-class people. Someone like Keating can put himself up as the possible Labor PM but he is more comfortable mixing with millionaires and business executives than he is with working-class people.' This mob are not a patch on Hawke and Keating. They have nothing in common with them.

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