House debates Questions without Notice

Economy

Monday, 1 September 2008 House of Representatives

Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister

2:35 pm

So, consistent with reflections made by various members of the frontbench on questions posed by those opposite, we will always examine in due course the statistical underpinnings of the propositions being put at their dispatch box. I draw attention to one such inconsistency. On the question which has just been put, if you face what we have had in recent times—a global economic meltdown which has impacted on global stock exchanges and which, in turn, has impacted on the investments of shareholders—that obviously impacts on calculations of wealth.

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