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

in the future because of the hard yards that our government did in the first six years in government to repair the budget and to strengthen the economy. A child born today will be in a better position, have better opportunities to get ahead, because of our plan to get Australia out of this COVID recession, because of our plan to create jobs and because of our plan to maximise the strength of the economic and jobs recovery. People across Australia know that if we had not stepped up earlier this year young people today and into the future would have been worse off, would have faced a more challenging environment and would have found it harder to get ahead. It is as a result of our hard yards in our first six years in government and through this coronavirus pandemic and coronavirus induced recession—it's because of our work—that young people today and into the future will have the best possible opportunity to get ahead.