Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will take the interjection; I will come to small business in just a moment. The former shadow Treasurer obviously could not deliver in that portfolio because her only strategy—it is pretty simple; you could probably write it on a very small piece of paper—was, ‘We’re just going to wait and see.’ My question was: wait to see what? Wait to see people lose their homes, wait to see unemployment rise, wait to see small businesses collapse, go under, fail—wait to see what? The rest of the world is already going down that path at an alarming rate. It is one of the greatest crises the world has ever faced. But the reaction from the opposition and from the former shadow Treasurer was: ‘Let’s just sit on our hands. Let’s just wait and see.’

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