Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

than that of every G7 nation, and—Senator Lines might like this fact—employment growth under this government is more than three times the rate of the last year that Labor was in government. It is more than three times the rate. It is also worth noting—and again Senator Lines may enjoy this fact—that since July 2014, when the Senate changed, the level of employment has increased by 292,100.

Mr President, you may ask: what does that mean? In plain English, it means that, when you get those on the other side out of the way—which is what we did in July 2014—and this government is able to get on with implementing its economic agenda, what you see is that the rate of jobs growth in Australia increases materially. I can also advise the Senate that the Department of Employment's Vacancy Report shows that job advertisements are up by 2.9 per cent over the year to October 2015. Everything we do on this side is all about jobs growth and creation. (Time expired)