Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for her question. Living standards today went up. There are figures today. The national accounts figures today have gone up. Today the figures show the fastest economic growth of any major advanced economy. And what we're really seeing here, is the projection that, clearly, yesterday—they briefed the Australian that they were going to talk about the economy today. Clearly, they wrote the questions yesterday, before they saw the facts of the accounts. Now, Australia has—I remind the House; I'm asked about international comparisons—faster economic growth than Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US. That is the entire G7—faster economic growth. The UK and Germany recently experienced recessions, along with whole lots of the advanced economic world, including our neighbours in New Zealand. We have a lower unemployment rate than Canada, France, Italy, the UK and the United States. They think that that, somehow, doesn't matter. We on this side think it does matter when people have jobs. That's why we're proud that 1.2 million jobs have been created on our watch—stronger employment growth than Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, and, at the same time, a higher participation rate than Canada, France—

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