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

I thank Senator Bernardi for that question, and for his strong interest and support for policies that are strengthening growth and opportunity across Australia. When we came into government we inherited a weakening economy, rising unemployment and a budget position that was rapidly deteriorating on the back of an unsustainable spending growth trajectory held by the previous government. I was listening to the worst finance minister in the history of the Commonwealth just before question time, when she was telling us that economic growth had slowed under this government. That is objectively wrong.