Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Jobs and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

I can. As you said, in the last 12 months to February 2018 we have seen the economy create 420,700 jobs. In the last 12 months of the former Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government, guess how many jobs the economy created? It was 88,900. Compare 420,700 with 88,900. In the last 12 months we've seen an average of 35,100 jobs created per month under this government—more than 1,100 jobs per day. In the last 12 months of the former Labor government the average was only 7,400 per month, or around 240 a day. The statistics could not be clearer. When you have a government that understands that you need to get the economic fundamentals right, it will result in job creation.