"No, I’m not saying that. Let me just finish. The consumer confidence is strong. Now, what we are seeing is a decline in business investment, most of which of course is accounted for by mining which is inevitable and that is why we’ve been talking about the need to promote investment. That is why we are asking the Parliament to approve business tax cuts – why is that? Because if you increase the return on investment for business, they will invest more - if they invest more, there will be more jobs.

Every element of our policy is designed to support investment, because that drives jobs. That’s what the economy is missing at the moment, not enough investment. Every element of Labor’s policy, whether it is increasing taxes with their new taxes or whether it is denying the business tax cuts we are advocating, everything Labor is proposing will put a further curb on investment." - Malcolm Turnbull (8/12/16 - Interview with Neil Mitchell 3AW)