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

What I would say again to the good people of Braddon, Longman and Mayo is that when we came into government in 2013 we inherited a weakening economy, rising unemployment and a rapidly deteriorating budget position. Since September 2013, as a result of our national economic plan for jobs and growth, more than a million new jobs have been created—more than 400,000 new jobs last year. We'll put our plan for the economy and jobs next to yours any day, because if Labor goes back to its bad old days of higher taxes on everything that moves—higher taxes on business, higher taxes on families, higher taxes on electricity, higher taxes on investment—it will hurt the economy, it will cost jobs and it will leave families around Australia worse off. Our plan is for lower taxes so that we can get more investment, stronger growth, more employment and higher wages on the back of stronger employment. That is what we are delivering. And you know what? The evidence is there that our plan is working. This is not the time to change direction. (Time expired)