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

We now have Senator Collins criticising what Mr Shorten said when he was Assistant Treasurer in the Gillard government. The Labor Party doesn't understand that if we want Australians to be as successful as possible we need the businesses that employ them to be as successful as possible. Nine out of 10 working Australians work for private sector businesses. Their future job security, their future career prospects and their future wage increases depend on the future profitability of those businesses, and do you know what? The future government revenue from business depends on the future profitability of those businesses, so we can continue to fund sustainably the public services of Australia— (Time expired)