Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Canning for his question and note that he has served this country with distinction in uniform. When we came to government, unemployment was rising, investment was falling and the budget was deep in the red. Since coming to government we committed to our plan to create more than one million jobs and we've created more than 1½ million jobs. We committed to reduce taxes and we have passed through the parliament more than $300 billion worth of tax cuts. We committed to the Australian people that we would bring the budget back into balance and we've delivered the first balanced budget in 11 years.

But I'm asked: are there any alternative approaches? We know those opposite prefer wellbeing budgets to balanced budgets. And they are led, inspired, by their spiritual leader, the mmmm-member for Rankin. I was thinking yesterday, as the member for Rankin was coming into the chamber—fresh from his ashram deep in the Himalayas, barefoot, robes flowing, incense burning, beads in one hand, wellbeing budget in the other—what would the yoga position be that the member for Rankin would assume?

Mr Tim Wilson interjecting—

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