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

I just say to those opposite: at a time when the nation, its families and its governments are wanting all people in this place to focus positively on how we lift the economy up, how we build up local communities and how we support local jobs, this government, in partnership with others, is in the business of implementing nation building for recovery. I say to those opposite who continue to engage in activities of this nature: we are using our time, our efforts and our energy as a government to support the economy, jobs and small business. What they are doing is wasting the nation’s time and engaging in the activities of fear and smear, with one single objective: to talk the economy down, to try and bring a government down. On top of that, both these campaigns are based on an absolute falsehood in relation to the false, fake and forged email on which basis the Leader of the Opposition has so many, many questions to answer.

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