Mark Furner (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will send you a copy of that, Senator Brandis. I would love to send you a copy because I sent it to Peter Slipper, and he is happy. I am sure he has got it pinned up on his noteboard in his office. Closing on interest rates, I want to make this final statement and it is all about this inconvenient truth—the inconvenient truth of our having the highest interest rates. We should go back to a period when I understand, as reported, interest rates were 21.4 per cent when John Howard was the Treasurer of the government. (Time expired)