Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable senator for his question. I say from the outset that this is a budget that makes a down payment on the skills we need to expand the productive capacity of our economy. Over the last year we have created 225,000 jobs, when many other advanced economies were shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs. While most economies shrank by three per cent, ours grew by 1.4 per cent.