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

It's Mr Shorten and the Labor Party that are clearly an impediment to young people getting off welfare into work, because of the policies that they have committed to, the $200 billion tax hit on businesses, workers and pensioners. It is a fact that these policies will devastate our economy, and if you devastate our economy, businesses are not able to prosper and grow. A business that is not able to prosper and grow is not able to employ Australians. Those on the other side don't seem to understand that a business that has to close employs no-one. That is why we on this side of the chamber will continue to put in place policies that enable our businesses to prosper and grow. We know that, when businesses prosper and grow, they are able to create jobs. Under the policies we have put in place since we were elected in September 2013 the economy has created now almost— (Time expired)