Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Certainly strong population growth and government spending and sensible government investments have ensured that our economy keeps growing. Those opposite are the only people in the country that would be sitting there waiting for the economic data to come out and wishing it to be worse than it actually is. Those opposite shattered on the day that interest rates held. They were shattered that that happened. Again, the national accounts showed that our economy continues to grow even in difficult times—

like we are facing now with the inflation challenge that we inherited from those opposite—inflation with a six in front of it, Senator Cash, and on its way up—with inflation now moderating in welcome ways with a three in front of it. So our economic plan is working. We are pleased the economy continues to grow, and we will continue to focus on helping people with cost-of-living pressures.