Cormann, Sen Mathias

Senator CORMANN (Western Australia—Minister for Finance, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate and Special Minister of State) (14:45): As I indicated in response to a question by Senator Bushby earlier, this government is making progress in putting the Australian economy on a stronger foundation for the future. We are guided by giving people across Australia the best possible opportunity to get ahead. That includes the best possible opportunity to afford their own home. We will continue to press ahead. The worst thing that Australia could do is to go back to the discredited and disastrous ways of the previous Labor government.