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

The government’s economic security strategy deals with short-term stimulus by way of payments to Australians who need support in order to boost employment in the retail sector, as well as investment in infrastructure and investment in housing in order to provide long-term support for our economy. Our overall approach to this is a clear-cut strategy for the future, and I would say to those opposite that it is about time that their approach to the global financial crisis was to engage in a serious economic strategy for the future rather than, as they are currently engaged in, a political strategy with one objective: to take as much political advantage as they can out of the economic crisis. Those opposite should get serious in contributing a positive idea for the debate. The nation expects it of you.

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