Mr FRYDENBERG (Kooyong—The Treasurer) (14:11): The honourable member might like to know that when Labor were last in office, in three out of six years minimum wages fell. The real minimum wage fell. Under us, under the coalition, every year real minimum wages have gone up. I'll repeat that for the honourable member: under Labor, in three out of the six years that they were in office, real minimum wages fell; under us, every year, real minimum wages have gone up. To educate the honourable member from the other side of the House, inflation today is 1.6 per cent, but the wages price index, which is a euphemism for wages growth, is 2.3 per cent. The reality is that real wages have been going up. The reality is that under our government lower taxes are creating more jobs and higher wages. If Labor ever get their time in government, $387 billion of higher taxes would reduce wages and cost jobs. It doesn't matter what the question is; for Labor, the answer is always higher taxes.