Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

The resilience of the labour market is on show with the employment figures, and, in particular, over the last five months. But that is because Australia entered COVID-19 from a position of economic strength. That is actually a good thing. You want to enter a pandemic from a position of economic strength, because it means that you have a chance of surviving it, and that is exactly what we are seeing happening. As we on the government side of the chamber know, governments don't create jobs; employers do—businesses do. Our role as a government is to put in place the economic policies that will help businesses keep their doors open, prosper, grow and create more jobs for Australians. That is exactly what we are doing, and that's why we have our JobMaker plan. It builds on our strong economic record, empowering businesses to prosper, grow and create more jobs for Australians, which is what we want them to do.