House debates Matters of Public Importance

Economy

Thursday, 4 December 2008 House of Representatives

Kerry Rea

Kerry Rea Bonner, Australian Labor Party

4:58 pm

on a $15.1 billion stimulus to create 133,000 jobs, to invest in infrastructure, to reinvest in health and education. What do we hear from those opposite? No ‘thank you’, no support. It is political spin; it is political opposition. They are trying to score political points, desperate enough that they are trying to create some political issue over the fact that, at the time of the greatest global financial crisis we have faced in decades, the Prime Minister wants to go overseas with businesspeople from Australia to talk about ways of investing, and the Treasurer wants to look at options— (Time expired)

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