Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Brockman, that is right. You are absolutely correct. It is a testament to all of the employers out there who are working with the government, looking at the government's policies, investing in the government's policies and creating more employment. As I was saying in answer to Senator Brockman's first question, in the month of May what we saw is that 97,500 of the jobs that were created were full-time jobs. That is a good thing, and it is all due to the employers out there taking on people, giving them those full-time jobs. In fact, in Australia now we have full-time employment at a record high—8,965,200 Australians. That is why as a government, and certainly in the budget that we recently brought down, we continue to put in place those policies that businesses in Australia can lever off to prosper, grow and, as we've seen today with the labour market figures for May, create more jobs for Australians.