Mr MORRISON (Cook—Prime Minister and Minister for the Public Service) (14:17): I'm happy to respond to the member's question and simply quote the Reserve Bank governor again, from his testimony before the House Economics Committee on 9 August this year. Sorry, this is at a press conference with the Treasurer on 11 July: I agree 100 per cent with you— speaking of the Treasurer— that the Australian economy is growing and the fundamentals are strong. The outlook is being supported by our lower interest rates, by your tax cuts, by higher levels of investment in infrastructure, by a pickup in the resources sector and the stabilisation of the housing market in Sydney and Melbourne. But I don't think we should forget that more Australians have jobs today than ever before in Australian history. That's a remarkable achievement. And I also agree with you that a priority is to make sure that Australia remains a great place for businesses to expand, innovate, invest and employ people and I'm sure we can do that. The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister— Honourable members interjecting— Mr MORRISON: I was asked about the Reserve Bank governor's comments. The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will resume his seat. The Manager of Opposition Business on a point of order? Mr Burke: Yes. It's on direct relevance. If we are in a situation where the Prime Minister is asked to respond to a quotation from someone and the answer is allowed by simply reading out alternative quotations from the same person, then the relevance rule has become absurd. The SPEAKER: I think what the Manager of Opposition Business needs to do—I don't want to say his point of order is absurd; that'd be rude of me—is look to all the other parts of the preamble that were in the question that mentioned the GFC and a whole lot of other things as well. The Prime Minister has the call. Mr MORRISON: I also refer to the governor's comments when he was before the House Economics Committee and said: Can I just clarify something: I have not called on the government to do fiscal expansion. That is what the Reserve Bank governor said in testimony before the House of Representatives committee. Now, I notice that the shadow Treasurer is running around dragging his coat again, saying that he would increase Newstart. At the last election, Labor put forward $387 billion of higher taxes, but guess what? Even with all those extra taxes, did they have an increase in Newstart when they went to the election? No, they didn't. They could take $387 billion out of the pockets of Australians and Australian businesses and they still couldn't increase Newstart. That's why this shadow Treasurer should never be trusted with an abacus, let alone a budget. As a result, that's why the Australian people chose the plan and the budget in particular, which the Treasurer handed down in April this year, which put in place the tax relief that the Labor Party opposed. That tax relief is saying to Australians: 'If you have a go, you'll get a go from this government.'