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

What I can confirm is that the Australian worker will always be better off under a coalition government than under a Labor government. Let me tell you what the Australian worker wants: the Australian worker wants to know they can get a job, that they can get a better job, that they can have attractive career prospects and that their wages will go up over time. That is what they will get under the coalition. Under Labor and under Bill Shorten's socialist agenda, we will have less investment, lower growth, fewer jobs and lower wages. His tax grab—this $165 billion tax grab, imposing additional taxes on the economy—will lead to less investment, lower growth, fewer jobs and lower wages.

Under the coalition, last year, in 2017, there were more than 400,000 new jobs, as Senator Cash explained to the Senate earlier. That compared to about 89,000 new jobs in the last year of the Labor government. In fact, full-time jobs under Labor were going backwards. Under the coalition, workers will always be better off— (Time expired)