House debates

Wednesday, 1 December 2021

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Economy

2:07 pm

Photo of Josh FrydenbergJosh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

No. I can inform the member for Rankin that since this pandemic began, other than the US and the French economies, Australia's economic recovery from the pandemic has been stronger than other major advanced economies: stronger than the Canadian economy, stronger than the UK economy, stronger than the Japanese economy, stronger than the German economy and stronger than the Italian economy. It's an inconvenient and uncomfortable truth for the member for Rankin that, even after the biggest economic shock since the Great Depression, and the first pandemic in a century, unemployment under the coalition is lower than it was under Labor. That's because our economic response to this pandemic has helped—

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