Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

This is more good news for Australia, and I thank the honourable member for McMillan—who is indeed an honourable man—for his question. I say to the parliament: there has been more good news today. On the back of the fact that under this government three times the number of jobs have been created every day than were created under the previous Labor government, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has just released data that confirms that the average weekly wage in Australia has now risen to $76,800—

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