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

The Australian economy continues to grow. We are into our 28th year of continuous growth, unprecedented in any developed economy around the world—unprecedented. We are one of just 10 AAA rated economies. I'm surprised that Senator Kitching would ask me this question, because I'm sure she would share my concern that there are some in the Labor Party who want to blame the loss of the last election entirely on Mr Shorten, when what is actually to blame was their antibusiness, higher taxing, socialist politics-of-envy agenda, which a majority of Australians understood would have—