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

It is hugely important that we fix the budget. The member for Bennelong knows that because he has been a very strong advocate of the country living within its means and the government living within its means. As a very successful businessman and an extremely good elite tennis player—and an ordinary squash player!—he would know it is very important that, when you set a goal, you set about achieving that goal.

The goal of this government is to strengthen the Australian economy. The goal of this government is to help create an environment where we have more jobs and better pay. Since we were elected, job growth in Australia has run at three times the speed of the last year of Labor—when the Leader of the Opposition was the minister for employment.

Ms Kate Ellis interjecting—

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