Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that, under his government, power prices have never been higher, pensioners will lose their energy supplements, weekend workers lose their penalty rates and low- and middle-income families face a tax hike, and the only benefit that anyone can look forward to is a lousy 50 cents a week in three years time?

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I've dealt with these issues in many answers before, but there is one set of statistics that I can confirm, and that is that, in the last 12 months, 371,500 jobs were created in Australia, of which 315,900 were full time. That does compare with another 12-month period: the last 12 months when the Leader of the Opposition was employment minister. During that time, there were 129,000 jobs created, of which only 32,900 were full time. Nearly three times as many jobs were created in the last 12 months as in the last 12 months when he had responsibility for employment.