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

I was very disappointed that James Massola went on strike over this past week, because I was reminded of a great front page in TheSydney Morning Herald during the election campaign, saying that Labor's pre-election costings were putting Australia's AAA credit rating at risk, because you went to the election with deficits $16.5 billion larger than what was reflected in the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook, and respected economists were making the point then that Labor was putting economic growth at risk.

In the coalition, we are working hard to help business be more successful so that they can hire more Australians and pay them better wages, by pursuing lower company tax rates, by pursuing access to reliable and affordable energy, by pursuing an export trade agenda that is properly ambitious, unlike Labor— (Time expired)