Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

They are passing a reflection on Professor McKibbin. Professor McKibben said:

The government rammed stimulus measures through the economy even though they were fraught with risk. It wasn’t evidence based policy. They panicked. They put the money into school buildings; they put it into insulation. They put it in stuff that they could never reverse. So they came up with a really badly designed resource tax to try and get the position to look good three years from now.

I ask the Prime Minister, is Professor McKibben, in the words of your own Treasurer, ‘a liar or just ignorant’?

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