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

Again, I reject the premise of the question. Real wages growth is higher than it was during the last year of the Labor government, so the proposition that real wages growth is at a record low is just completely and utterly misleading the public.

Furthermore, we went to the last election with a plan to grow the economy and to deal with the challenges that we knew were coming our way. We are implementing our pro-growth budget and we'll provide an update on that pro-growth budget in our half-yearly budget update in December. We will continue to make decisions in an orderly fashion. We will not ever pursue the sorts of cash splashes that the Labor Party recklessly and irresponsibly pursued in government. We are not going to force schools to accept school halls they don't need. We are not going to put pink batts into people's houses and set their houses on fire, only then to spend another billion dollars taking those pink batts out again. We will continue to make sensible decisions, implementing our plan to build a stronger economy and a more resilient economy, and to create more jobs.