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

The budget that the Treasurer handed down last night was a plan to secure Australia's recovery. First and foremost, that means getting Australians back into work and getting Australians back into jobs. I'll hand over to the Treasurer in just one moment to address the specific issue that the Leader of the Opposition has raised. As we know, over the course of the current financial year and through the pandemic period many initiatives were undertaken by the government which have had an impact on how the inflation rate has been impacted as a result of those measures—whether it was through child care—and that has provided timing differences in relation to how these matters are measured technically.

What I do know is that the economic recovery plan that is set out in the budget that the Treasurer handed down last night is going to mean more jobs, more investment, more support for Australians in work, lower taxes, better infrastructure—

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