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

This is why the Australian public do not trust the Labor Party, when it comes to whether times are good or times are bad. Times are difficult at the moment, and the budget that was handed down by the Treasurer was the budget that Australians need, and it is a budget for all Australians. It's a budget that has given Australians hope and has given Australians confidence. It is a budget that says that Australians should be able to keep more of what they earn, and that businesses who are going to employ people, particularly young people—who have been hit four times harder through this pandemic recession, and we need to get them back into work as quickly as possible. But still the Labor Party baulk at that. The Leader of the Labor Party will have it each way on every single issue, and that's why the Australian people don't trust him. Even those on his own side don't trust him. He can't go to Queensland; they won't have him up there. And the member for Hunter won't travel all the way from Maitland to Newcastle to stand behind the—

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