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

It's a very good question, because this is where the Australian people will need to make a choice: do they want to back a government that's putting in place the right policy framework to create jobs, which those of us in this part of the chamber side with, or the alternative, those on the other side, who will put in place job-destroying policies? It is a fact that, in the last 12 months under the policies of this government, the economy has created in excess of 178,000 full-time jobs. That's out of a total job creation of in excess of 300,000 jobs. Let's compare that figure to what happened under the last 12 months of the former Labor government. Colleagues, under the last 12 months of the former Labor government the economy shed almost 17,000 full-time jobs. The economy under us has created in excess of 178,000; under those opposite, it shed almost 17,000.