Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Fisher. I beg your pardon, Mr Slipper. The neglect of skills and maniacal pursuit of union-busting projects like the Australian Technical Colleges, especially when the real opportunities were waiting in our TAFE colleges and universities, show how the former government dropped the ball when it came to skills. But perhaps the biggest factor in Australia’s current inflationary explosion is the legacy of the previous government. Today’s inflationary pressures are a direct result of the Howard-Costello government’s failure to act on a number of Reserve Bank inflation warnings. How many warnings?

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