House debates
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Questions without Notice
G20 Leaders' Summit
2:27 pm
Anne Aly (Cowan, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to reports that the Treasurer has cancelled his planned trip to meet with his international counterparts at the G20 because of government chaos and division. Given the Treasurer's recent success as a cinematographer, has the Treasurer considered sending a video message to the G20 instead?
2:28 pm
Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Both the Prime Minister and I are having a session with Mark Humphries shortly! But the reality is the economy is a serious business. The Australian economy and the jobs of more than 100,000 young people who have been put in a job as a result of the strong economy that we have helped create is a serious business. The Labor Party left this government an economy where unemployment was rising, investment was in freefall, debt was rising and, as the Deputy Prime Minister reminds this place, confidence was falling. In contrast, we have delivered what Liberal and National parties do—more jobs, lower taxes and lower unemployment, which is now at its lowest level since 2012. The Prime Minister will represent this country at the G20 meeting, accompanied by the Minister for Finance, and he will be talking Australia up, unlike the Labor Party, which talks Australian down.