Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

There is a lot of risk in the Australian economy. It is true that the Australian economy has weathered that risk a lot better under coalition management than it did 10 years ago. But if anybody in Australia thinks that you can walk people in to manage the Australian economy on the basis that they once ran a cabinet office in Queensland or on the basis that they were once an ALP state secretary in Queensland, they are wrong. Economic management is much too important to be left to the Labor Party.

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