Garth Hamilton (Groom, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

As reported in the Australian:

… Parliamentary Library researchers found budget paper one mentioned productivity 53 times, but did not include a substantive program to boost the economy's productive capacity.

This is incredible! The obvious questions to the Treasurer are: Why? Was this a deliberate omission? And when can the Australian people expect to see this omission corrected?

Real wages fell 3.1 per cent in the first 12 months of this Labor government's term and are now 5.4 per cent below where they were before the pandemic. Why has this budget failed to get real wages growing again? Can the Treasurer confirm that this is a promise he cannot keep and a promise that he had absolutely no intention of keeping?

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