House debates

Wednesday, 20 June 2007

Questions without Notice

Interest Rates

2:18 pm

Photo of Lindsay TannerLindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

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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