Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Jobs and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

Because those of us on this side understand that governments don't create jobs; employers do. The closest that many of you on the other side have ever come to a business is to close it down. Employees need employers, and those of us on this side understand that what governments do is put in place the policy framework under which business can either prosper and grow—400,000 jobs created in the economy under the Turnbull government last year, with 300,000 of them being full-time jobs, versus the last 12 months of the former Labor government, when a fifth of that number of jobs were created. But, colleagues, guess what? It got worse. The economy actually lost full-time jobs. We understand you need to get the economic fundamentals right; you don't. (Time expired)