Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

This will be a very short speech. This year's federal budget is an economic recovery plan for the Sunshine Coast and every corner of Australia. This budget includes record funding for education, health and aged care. For a region like the Sunshine Coast, which saw unemployment double during COVID in fewer than 50 days, the budget is unashamedly about job creation. For those Sunshine Coast locals in a job, our federal government wants to keep them in a job. For those who don't have a job, we want to help them find a job. Making that a reality on the Sunshine Coast is going to depend on maintaining consumer and business confidence and their ability to spend and invest.

It's economic growth driven by small-business investment and consumer spending in my community that will ensure that together we can rebuild our economy. The Treasurer understands that, which is why the federal budget's two headline measures are targeted right to those points. The government is allowing 11 million Australians to keep more of what they earn through new tax cuts brought forward into this year. This is going to support consumer spending—

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