Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the—is it the finance minister? Whatever portfolio the member for Goldstein has today, I thank him for his question. Can I say to the member for Goldstein and, more broadly, to the opposition: I anticipate that we will be back here for the next sitting week and they will be saying: ‘Christmas will be cancelled! Children will not get Easter eggs! The tooth fairy will never come!’ This is where we will get to in the next few sitting weeks—absurd proposition on absurd proposition. These people cower in the face of the challenges of the future. These people cower and they ask the Australian nation to cower with them. They ask the Australian nation to say to itself—

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