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

The flippancy of the opposition when it comes to the COVID-19 recession honestly reflects very poorly on them. They come into this place with glib, cheap insults to those in this country who are doing it the hardest they have in generations.

I am asked about this matter of what has occurred with those who have lost their jobs in this country. A million people in a matter of weeks fell out of employment or had their jobs reduced to zero hours, and since that time more than 760,000 people have found those jobs again, or their hours have been restored. That has been our response to the COVID-19 recession. Those opposite don't even seem to understand that the COVID-19 recession was caused by COVID-19. Those opposite don't know how we got into the recession, and so they have no answers when it comes to how to find the way out of it. This is a Labor party—

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