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

Ah, the member for North Sydney: always interjecting. With Joe, you know that the volume of the interjection is directly proportional to the thinness of the content. It always happens that way with Joe.

In response to the global economic crisis the government have embarked upon a National Building for Recovery plan. We have embarked upon three stages of stimulus. Seventy per cent of the stimulus is in infrastructure. Our stimulus is designed to do this: to support jobs, small business and apprenticeships today by investing in the infrastructure Australia needs for tomorrow. I say also to honourable members that I am advised that one of our senators had a few problems on the doors today when he was interviewed about fiscal stimulus. He had a problem with the spelling of the word ‘fiscal’. This is of no real consequence; anyone can make mistakes in spelling. I make mistakes in spelling; I am sure other members make spelling mistakes as well.

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