Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

Australia, in general terms, has relatively good labour productivity growth. Having said that, the difficulty with the Australian Labor Party is they do not understand that a good country will always seek to strive to do better, and that is where the Australian Labor Party are stuck in a rut. Be it financial, they have no aspiration to do better. Labour productivity? No aspiration to do better. Reduced cost of living? No aspiration to do better. More jobs for the Australian people? No aspiration to do better. We have that aspiration on this side, and that is what we dedicate ourselves to day after day, hour after hour, whilst we have the privilege of being the government—