Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, it's the 'senator for smear' over there, and the opposition tactics are completely laid bare. Their tactics for the next election are all about smear, all about denigration. They're not going to bother bowling up any policies. They won't ever come clean on whether or not they'll implement lower taxes for Australians. Indeed, we know that taxes will end up being higher for Australians. They won't talk about the substantive issues that Australia faces. They will just engage in the type of dirt-digging and smear that they think might get them a cheap headline.

On this side, we will continue to stand on our record. We are proud of the fact that Australia's economy is bigger now than it was pre the pandemic and that we are the only economy in the advanced world to have achieved that outcome. We are proud of the fact that more Australians are in jobs today than was the case prior to the pandemic, and we were the first advanced economy in the world to achieve that. We are proud of the fact that most of those jobs coming back have gone to Australian women. We're proud to see full-time jobs coming back, and that side don't seem to care. (Time expired)