George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Well, Senator Bullock, you do not have to take these questions. Do not let them boss you around because whoever wrote that question would not have been someone like you, Senator Bullock. The record is that economic growth has gone from 1.9 per cent in the last year of the Labor government to 2.3 per cent last year. On the basis of the most recent evidence we have, the March quarterly figures, it is heading for 3.6 per cent this year, which is among the largest rates of growth in the industrial economies. Jobs growth is quadruple what it was during the period of the Labor government. Housing construction is booming; business confidence is booming; consumer confidence is booming; retail sales are booming; the NAB business confidence index is booming. This country is going gangbusters under the Abbott government.