House debates Questions without Notice

Interest Rates

Wednesday, 20 June 2007 House of Representatives

Lindsay Tanner

Lindsay Tanner Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance

2:18 pm

My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. How can the Prime Minister claim that working families in Australia have never been better off when Reserve Bank figures show that a record 11.7 per cent of families’ disposable income now goes on interest payments—70 per cent higher than the equivalent figure five years ago?

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