Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

opportunities for people across Australia. That is what we have done in the past and that is what we are setting out to do now. For those who want to see what can be achieved when you get your budget back under control, look no further than what happened when the Howard government did the exact same thing. We ended up with a legacy of strong economic growth, strong jobs growth, income tax cut after income tax cut, increases in benefits and improvements in government services—all of that on a sustainable basis because the budget was under control.