Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

On this side, we are a strong and united Liberal-National party team which has delivered stronger growth, more jobs and lower unemployment, and which is getting the budget back into surplus and sorting out the mess we inherited from the Labor Party. Everybody across Australia knows that when we came into government we inherited from the Labor Party a weakening economy, rising unemployment and a rapidly deteriorating budget position despite all these Labor tax grabs—one after the other; tax grabs that they want to bring back, which would again lead to lower growth, fewer jobs, higher unemployment and lower wages over time.

Our message to the Australian people is that Mr Shorten, as Prime Minister, would make Australia weaker and would make you poorer. Don't vote for him. We will continue to make the Australian economy stronger and create better opportunities for all Australians to get ahead, to get a job, to build a career here in Australia and, indeed, we will ensure that a sound budget position ensures that we can fund all of the important services provided by government.