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

The last two budgets our government has handed down have been focused on the economic recovery plans to keep Australia's businesses strong, safe and secure, to keep Australians in jobs and to help us work through the continued uncertainties of COVID, and they have worked. They have worked in terms of supporting those businesses—hundreds of thousands of livelihoods and Australian businesses. Our continued support through tax relief for Australians means more than 11 million Australian families are enjoying the benefits of lower income taxes with $1½ billion a month extra going into the pockets of those Australian households. The support of the HomeBuilder program and the home guarantee scheme will see more than 300,000 Australians helped into homeownership even in these challenging international times. Our $110 billion pipeline of infrastructure projects and the 220,000 trade apprentices in training are the consequence of targeted, effective policies that we have put in place to help keep Australians secure.