Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

The first and simple answer to that question is that fiscal policy is an important part of good economic management. We saw today—

Senator Abetz interjecting—

I am sure Senator Abetz is one of the few people in the country who are not happy about this, but we saw today unemployment figures come out which showed that 926,000 jobs have been created since the Labor government came to office in 2007 and, as pleasingly, also an increase—