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

Everything we do as part of our economic agenda is about making sure that working families in Braddon and right around Australia have the best possible opportunity to get ahead. Our national economic plan for jobs and growth is all about making sure that more jobs are being created, that there's more competition for workers, so that business has to pay more to secure their services. We want higher wages for the people in Braddon. If we continue to create more jobs, wages will go up. If the Labor Party were to get back into government and we had Mr Shorten's plan for higher taxes, there'd be fewer jobs, higher unemployment and lower wages. I have a reason to rate the first speech of the member for Bass—