Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

According to the OECD. The percentage in the average nation equivalent to us in the same period of time is plus 38 per cent. The extraordinary thing is, and you can see it in the ministers opposite—the Minister for Health and Ageing and the Minister for Human Services—they do not know that. They do not understand that. They do not know what they have done, and that is all part of being massively out of touch, massively arrogant and massively uncaring about the people whom they pretended to be supportive of: Middle Australia. Just as they have mounted a savage assault on how they earn their money in the industrial relations system, so they have now on their capacity to pay their mortgages—and they will pay the penalty for it. (Time expired)

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