Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for La Trobe for his question, and I commend him on his great advocacy on the Monash Freeway.

The government is establishing a strong platform for jobs and growth in our economy by backing Australians who are out there working, saving and investing every day, and simply wanting a system of support that backs them in the decisions they are making. Australians are responding positively to this, as the Prime Minister has just said, in what Bill Evans described today as 'a cracking result' on the Westpac Melbourne Institute Index. We now have more optimists than we do pessimists about our economy in this country. That is a good thing, and that is backed up—

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