Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister went on in his CEDA speech to make a number of other points, including the work that JobKeeper and jobseeker have done to put a floor under the fall in consumer confidence which we saw in March. We have now recovered that lost ground in consumer confidence, and the Westpac and ANZ indices both tell us that the high-frequency spending data shows that that's being increasingly translated into increased retail sales. Those opposite mention work areas which have a high proportion of women working in them. That includes hospitality and retail, and we know that the good news for those women and young people who work in both of those areas, for example, is that they will be early benefiters from the reopening process. (Time expired)