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

The government takes seriously independent advice it has obtained from the Treasury—the same Treasury which advised the member for Higgins, has advised previous Treasurers and, through their Treasurers, the Prime Minister of the time as well. That is the first point. The second is: whenever those opposite dislike what is produced by way of projections or data, they attack the originator. Last week, you did so in relation to the ABS data—

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