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

What those opposite have proven time and time again is that, whether it is with economic stimulus or whether it is with the bank guarantee, they are the masters of misjudgment. The ultimate evidence of that is that there is not one skerrick of a fiscal policy they can put forward in this House. The facts of the matter are these. The stimulus has worked, but there are big challenges ahead for this nation. What the nation requires is unity in this House in dealing with those challenges, not the bitter division that we have seen from those opposite, not the fear-and-smear campaigns, not what they did in this House some weeks ago, where for a whole week of the parliament they could not ask me one single question about the economy. Indeed, in something like eight question times there has not been a question to the Treasurer about the economy. I have concluded.

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