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

We are implementing our plan for stronger growth and more jobs, and may I say we are achieving some success. Jobs growth over the last 12 months has been more than 13 times as high as in the last year of Labor. In the last year of Labor, just 23,400 jobs were created—just 23,400 jobs in a whole year in the last year of Labor—and of course over the last 12 months more than 300,000 jobs have been created. What this government will continue to do is focus on pursuing reforms that will make sure that businesses in Australia can be the most competitive, the most productive, the most innovative, the most agile and the most nimble possible so that we can take advantage of the opportunities in the Asia-Pacific but we are also as resilient as possible in the face of inevitable future economic headwinds coming our way from time to time.