QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator ROBERTS (Queensland) (14:40): My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Yesterday I asked a series of questions on the labour market using ABS data, including this question: Treasurer Chalmers stated last week six out of seven jobs created since 2022 were in the private sector. Yet over 70 per cent of the jobs created are in the taxpayer funded economy, not the private sector—health, NDIS, aged care and education.

Your answer went to the worthiness of those jobs, which One Nation does not dispute. Your answer did not deal with the Treasurer's misrepresentation. The Treasurer is wrong and misleading.

How can six out of seven jobs that your government has created be in the private sector if the share of jobs in the private sector has fallen from 85.2 per cent of the labour market when you came to power down to 84 per cent today, indicating the reverse is true?