Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

This is the most jobs created in the first year of any government in Australian history—the most jobs created by any new government in Australian history. We are the party of jobs, jobs and jobs, and that is confirmed. We also have wages growing, after the period in which those opposite were saying that real wage depression was a peak feature of their economic architecture. We also have the highest number of women in full-time work in Australian history. They over there have the hide, having presided over the first recession in three decades, to come in here and talk down the Australian economy. Well, we on this side will continue to promote our positive plans for economic growth, our positive plans for employment, our positive plans for an economy that works for people, not the other way around, at the same time as we're making substantial investments in social policy and making a difference, such as our announcement on Saturday of $2 billion additional funding for public housing, to make a difference to the economy so that jobs will be created, so that people will have a place to live—a sort of commitment that would never be made by any coalition commitment.

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