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

I thank the member for Fraser, because the recent data puts a wrecking ball right through the Leader of the Opposition's aggressively negative campaign talking down our economy. He was saying the price rises would go through the roof, that jobs would be destroyed—well, we have seen 14,000 jobs created in July alone; 100,000 jobs over the past year. We have seen the TD Securities inflation gauge record its lowest annual point in nearly three years. All of these are facts. But we have a Leader of the Opposition who is at war with the facts and with reality. He will say anything and do anything to achieve his political objective, including trying to talk down our economy. And in that he has been joined by the Premier of Queensland—

Mr Ewen Jones interjecting—

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