Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

You can take the posture of those opposite, which is to hoist up the white flag and say: ‘You can do nothing about this. You can just sit back and allow any cost impost to be thrown onto consumers.’ Or you can stand up for working families, working Australians and those doing it tough.

The Labor Party stands up for the people under financial pressure at the moment. Those opposite, it seems, have the opposite resolve. I stand by the comments made before by the Deputy Prime Minister.

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