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

I welcome a debate, right through to the election, on economic policy. If the Labor Party is as weak as was evidenced by that speech, I have no doubt how the electorate will make up its mind. I invite members who are here to think back over the 15-minute tirade we have just had from the member for Lilley—former State Secretary of the ALP; long on rhetoric but short on policy. Can anybody think of one policy that he mentioned in that 15-minute tirade that the Labor Party has actually published, costed or announced? No. Fancy calling on a matter of public importance, saying that the matter of public importance is the failure of the government to invest in productivity to deal with long-term economic goals and then to go 15 minutes without providing one alternative policy. You have to have chutzpah!

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