Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Our position is that we should be joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. That is a position we adopted last October and that the government were dragged kicking and screaming to. The government showed such lack of interest and such a lack of foresight that they could not make a decision to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. That is the sort of economic leadership we are seeing from this government.

Mr Simpkins interjecting—

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