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

Our policies on reducing taxes, on affordable and reliable energy, on getting Australians into skills—we have record levels of Australians in trade apprenticeships right now—are what support businesses to be able to support their employees, grow their businesses, increase their wages, enable them to buy a house and secure the economic recovery. That is what our policies are doing. They are building the congestion-busting infrastructure in our cities and job-making infrastructure in our regions that enables product to get from paddock to plate to port, to ensure that our agricultural and regional industries have got the opportunities they need to support the standard of living that people in Australia deserve and expect. We will continue to toil hard every day to ensure that we do everything we can to support them in that.

But do you know who we believe in most to deliver those things? We believe most in those Australians who go out there every day and work hard, run businesses, look after their kids, make decisions and work in their communities. We believe that Australians are at the centre of our economic plan. Those opposite think the government is at the centre of the plan and that the government should tax you more so they can try and increase your standard of living. Not us on this side of the House. We believe you are the answer, not the government. We think government should be getting more out of people's way as we secure this economic recovery, not cling onto those powers, which we know Labor always want to do. Once they get their hands on power, as Australians know, they can't release it.

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