Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I'm asked about pressures on families and on Australians. When we came to office, real wages were going backwards, and now they're growing again. I'm asked about productivity. Those opposite oversaw the weakest decade for productivity growth in the last 60 years. I'm asked about tax. Those opposite wanted to go to an election because we wanted to give a tax cut to every single Australian taxpayer and not just some Australian taxpayers. Whether it is living standards, whether it's productivity or whether it's tax, those opposite have a shameful record—an indefensible record—when it comes to those things that were core to the shadow Treasurer's question a moment ago.

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