Mr MORRISON (Cook—Prime Minister and Minister for the Public Service) (14:07): The challenge of getting incomes to rise in this country is not a new one. It's been one the government has been working with the Reserve Bank on for many years. As Treasurer, I had numerous engagements with the Reserve Bank governor about this very issue, and I can tell you that's why our government initiated the tax relief that we took through this parliament, not just in the most recent budget but in the budgets before that—because we want to ensure that Australians keep more of what they earn. In the most recent quarterly figures, 0.7 per cent was the real wage growth through the year. That is higher than what we inherited from the Labor Party in the last year they were in government. Ensuring that we continue to grow wages is a function of implementing our economic plan, and that economic plan is to get people off welfare and into work. It's a plan to get people's taxes down, so they can keep more of what they earn and invest it and spend it on the things that are most important to them. Mr Butler: But they're not spending it! Mr MORRISON: I take the interjection from those opposite: 'But they're not spending it.' I simply remind the member opposite: it's their money; they can do whatever they want with it. If they want to spend it, they can spend it. If they want to save it, they can save it. But I'll tell you one thing they won't have to do under this government, and that is: give it to the government. Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Cowan is warned. The member for Griffith is warned. Mr MORRISON: If it had been the Labor Party who were elected, they'd be keeping more of the money that Australians earn. They'd be keeping more of the money that businesses earn. But, under our government— Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Could the Prime Minister just pause for a second. The level of interjections is already too high. I'm not going to raise my voice at the moment, because I can't. I have already just warned the members for Cowan and Griffith. I'll have no hesitation in lowering the volume by ejecting members. I'm giving everyone fair warning. Mr MORRISON: Reducing taxes, ensuring Australians can keep more of what they earn—that is what the last election was about. And at the last election Australians chose to keep more of what they earn and reject the $387 billion in higher taxes, which still remains on the policy books of the Labor Party to this day—it still remains their commitment. If they want to change that policy then by all means they should. We think they should. But they want to keep it a mystery, for goodness knows how long, because they don't know which way they want to go on that side of the House. We're not only keeping taxes down; we're investing $100 billion in infrastructure. We're investing in proper changes to our skills arrangements in this country, which will mean that people will be trained for the jobs that will be there for them in the future and today. To ensure we're expanding our trade all around the country, we have lifted our trade agreements from less than 30 per cent, around 27 per cent, to 70 per cent of our trade over the last six years, expanding the borders of our trade to ensure Australians can earn more—and Australians, at the end of the day, because of our tax policies, can keep more of what they earn. The plan that we have, that we took to the Australian people, that was endorsed by the Australian people—we will continue to implement it day after day after day. That is the path to higher wages. Higher taxes are not the path to higher wages. High taxes are the path of the Labor Party. Lower taxes are the path of the Liberal and National parties.