Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Any suggestion that the government was aware of the matters mentioned on the front page of the Australian on Saturday is fiction. Any suggestion that the head of the Henry review, Dr Henry, had any knowledge of those matters he himself has said is fiction. So what we have here is another fear campaign from a group of people who basically could not support this country in its hour of need. When it needed an economic stimulus they got up and said that it would not work. They said the stimulus would not work. The Leader of the Opposition went to the National Press Club of Australia one week before the budget and said the stimulus would not support one job. The data is in and, of course, when it comes to the economy what this proves is that those opposite—

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