Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I assume the honourable member is referring to the government's enterprise tax plan, which involves reducing company tax to 25 per cent. That, of course, was described by the member for McMahon as a Labor thing and a great objective. It was. Of course, it was described by the Leader of the Opposition himself. Cutting company tax, he said, would increase investment, increase productivity and result in more jobs and better paid jobs. Every Labor leader before him has supported reducing company tax because they know it delivers more jobs and greater investment. That's what we have been seeing. We have had, in the last calendar year, the largest jobs growth in our history and, since the coalition was elected under the leadership of the member for Warringah in September 2013, 1,013,600 jobs were created—over a million jobs. The Labor Party say that the government's economic plan is not delivering. It's delivering record jobs growth. I remember when Labor leaders, going right back to Neville Wran—great leaders in the Labor Party—used to stand up and say it was all about jobs, jobs, jobs. Not anymore.

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