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

Yes, I am, and they are the stated policies of those on the other side, the Labor Party. What they don't understand is that you cannot implement policies that will actually tax businesses out of prosperity. If you increase taxes on business, they are not able to prosper, they are not able to grow. When a business is not able to prosper and grow, it is not able to create additional jobs for Australians. It is a very simple proposition: an employer that has to close employs no-one. But those on the other side don't understand this. In relation to manufacturing jobs—as I said, if in Australia we were ever to return to the destructive policies of those on the other side, when we saw, last time, one in eight manufacturing jobs being lost—what more do they want? On this side of the chamber, we will always put in place job-creating policies. (Time expired)