Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

As we deal with the global inflation challenge that is affecting our economy, we are pleased that inflation moderates under our economic plan. We are pleased that wages have got moving again under our economic plan—something you wanted to cut. We are pleased that almost a million jobs have been created in the first term of an Albanese government—more people in work, more people earning more and keeping more of what they earn. That is important, and we are seeing economic growth continue in this country, when other, like-minded economies have seen quarters of negative growth, which is not something we have seen here. We've got a strong labour market. We're seeing inflation moderate. We're seeing wages get moving again. And we acknowledge that it is tough—hence our cost-of-living measures, which you have opposed, almost exclusively. Every single one of them would have been worse off had you been in charge, under your economic plan.