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

If the honourable member were to look at the government’s budget forecasts he would see that, in terms of the rate of economic growth for the period ahead, we have obviously projected a softening of growth consistent with the softening of growth across the global economy. Secondly, what follows from that is that public revenue also softens. One follows from the other. I would have thought that the honourable member would understand that.

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