Rowan Ramsey (Grey, Liberal Party) | Hansard source

I'd like to congratulate the Treasurer and the Prime Minister on their budget delivered on Tuesday evening. Who would have thought two years ago that, when Treasury predicted that Australia was heading for a 14-plus per cent unemployment rate, we would be standing here today talking about a four per cent unemployment rate, heading for 3.75? Who would have thought at the time of MYEFO last December that the bottom line of the budget would be turned around by over $100 billion by the time we got through to the budget? It is just one of the most outstanding recoveries of the Australian economy.

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