Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I'm sure that Mr Turnbull, like many Liberals around Australia, is very, very focused on seeing and very keen to see this government do well and be successful at the next election. We as a government continue to do everything we can to ensure the economy is as strong as possible, that as many jobs as possible are created in the economy and that the budget gets back to surplus as soon as possible.

Remember, in case you have forgotten, we inherited from the Labor Party back in September 2013 a weakening economy, rising unemployment and a rapidly deteriorating budget position. Of course, as a result of our work as a government, a Liberal-National government, over the last five-and-a-bit years, the economy now is stronger, the economic growth outlook is stronger, more jobs have been created, the unemployment rate is well below where it was and well below where it was anticipated it would be and the budget is on track to return to surplus.

We know, of course, that if there were a change of government at the next election— (Time expired)