Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Stirling for the question. I note that, in 1996, the unemployment rate in Stirling was 9.4 per cent, and today it is 5.2 per cent. Good news there, Mr Speaker! The economic reforms of past years have helped to deliver a strong economy today, and today’s reforms help to deliver a strong economy for tomorrow. All the reforms undertaken by this government—such as getting the budget back into surplus, paying off $96 billion of Labor government debt, taxation reform, reform of the waterfront—have been opposed by the Labor Party. More recently, the Labor Party has opposed the Future Fund—

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