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

The reason the government focuses so much—this is our absolute focus—on securing a strong economy is for the very issues the member has raised in the question. You don't make people's lives easier by increasing their taxes. You don't make their lives easier by preventing small businesses from growing and gumming them up in more regulation. You don't increase the ability of government to support people through their pensions and other services that they rely on by talking down the Australian economy and trying to shut down the Australian resources industry. That's not what you do.

That's why our government has reversed those sorts of policies that were in place under the Labor Party—they would like to go there again, I have no doubt. That will be particularly the case as we go into this next election, because I understand that the Greens these days are now referring to themselves as shadow ministers in what would be a Labor-Greens government. They are talking it up, and the Labor Party have been pretty sneaky by not telling us what their policies are.

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