Mr FRYDENBERG (Kooyong—The Treasurer) (14:22): I thank the member for Boothby for her question. She brings to this place experience in industry, experience in the media and experience defeating a nasty campaign from GetUp!, a campaign which was backed and supported all the way by the Labor Party. The reality is that, when we came to government, unemployment was at 5.7 per cent, employment growth was at 0.7 per cent, the participation rate was lower than it is today and the gender pay gap was wider than it is today. But today the coalition is proud— Mr Brendan O'Connor interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Gorton is warned. Mr FRYDENBERG: to tell this House and the Australian people that the budget is back in balance for the first time in 11 years, and that 300,000 people got a job in 2018-19—100,000 more than was already expected by Treasury. This led to an increase in our receipts and a decrease in payments, as more people were in a job and fewer people were on welfare. The benefit of having a balanced budget is that you can deliver the services that people need and deserve, like the NDIS. In the jobs numbers that are out today, 35,000 people got a job in the month of August, and 36,000 people got a job in the month of July. That means that, since we got re-elected by the Australian people, more than 1,000 jobs have been created a day. I'm asked: am I aware of any alternative policies? The Labor Party still have $387 billion of higher taxes on their books. You don't balance budgets, create budget surpluses or create jobs with higher taxes—higher taxes on superannuants, higher taxes on retirees, higher taxes on homeowners, higher taxes on renters and higher taxes on workers, including those in Gladstone that the member for Maribyrnong confronted during the election. Paul Keating had it right when he said the Labor Party has lost the ability to speak to the aspirations of Australians. Paul Keating had it right when he said the Labor Party of today has lost the ability to fashion policies that speak to the aspirations of the Australian people. Only the coalition can manage the budget, only the coalition can create more jobs and only the coalition can lower taxes for all hardworking Australians.