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

Senator Wong, what we think, what we intend to do and what we are doing is to make sure that every single Australian shares in the benefits of our growing economy, because we know that the best way to reduce poverty and the best way to create equality, equality of opportunity in particular, is to ensure that strong job growth continues.

I have given you the figures, Senator Wong: 60,000 new jobs in June alone as a result of the policies of this government. And we are continuing to take action on many fronts by cutting taxes so that small businesses and family businesses will have the ability to pay better wages to the employees they have and employ more people in their businesses. By enabling 120,000 young Australians to get real work experience through the PaTH program— (Time expired)