Jason Falinski (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Wow! The problem with these guys is that they don't even know what the economy is. I could be talking about the economy using crayons and butcher paper and they still wouldn't get it. Of course, the member for Fraser and the member for Fenner are exempt from that. Maybe they could help those on that side actually understand what an economy looks like. Every time they get into government, the economy disappears. There is no economy. You leave us with a mess. When we get back in government we fix up the mess you left. Then what do you do? You come to this place and complain about it.

Do you know what this MPI should say? This MPI should say: 'We thank the Morrison government for fixing up the mess we left.' That's what it should say. Frankly, I'm going to pretend that's what it does say. That's a much-better MPI topic than the chatbot that the Leader of the Opposition's office came up with today. It's just absurd. Your responsible lending laws, which effectively make lenders responsible for the behaviour of borrowers, have dried up our capital markets and have destroyed the economy and economic activity. Now you come in here and say to us, 'Why haven't you fixed it yet?' You create the most rigid labour markets in the world. Under you real wages fell and under us they're increasing.

Opposition members interjecting—

Can't we all come together over a union official bullying a woman, who was a subcontractor, on a building site? I would have thought the parliament could come together over that. But not these blokes—no, no, no. They see the dollars going in the bank, they see the donors coming to the dinners and they're not interested.

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