Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Please—that's the banker lady there. What we've consistently seen from this government is that we watch national debt get bigger—that's more. With debt, there's a little minus sign in front of it. You sit there and talk about what great economic managers you are, but what you've done is increase deficit, increase debt, increase cost of living, cut wages, cut support for pensioners, cut support for families, cut education funding and cut health funding, and you congratulate yourselves.

We heard Treasurer Morrison today saying, 'There are greater times ahead.' Five years in government and all we've heard is, 'gonna, gonna, gonna'. The best way that we can help Australian families and Australian workers is to get rid of this mob opposite and put a government in that actually values people, not big businesses. They want to give big businesses like the banks a tax cut. We want to give them a royal commission. There are stark differences. We want to support people on low incomes. They want to crucify them. The choice is very clear. (Time expired)

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