Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Wong, the worst finance minister in the history of the Commonwealth, is asking what has happened to consumer confidence. We inherited low consumer confidence. Consumer confidence in Australia today is back at long-term trend measures. This does not suit the worst finance minister in the history of the Commonwealth, because she cannot handle the fact that this is a government that has started to build a stronger, more prosperous economy, started to repair the budget, despite the best efforts of the Labor Party to boycott the necessary and important budget repair. We have set the foundations for a stronger and more prosperous economy into the future.

We will continue with the task at hand. We will continue to focus on the national interest. We will continue to make the difficult but necessary decisions to protect living standards and build better opportunities for all Australians into the future—whatever the Labor Party does.