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

I will conclude on this point: investment in the resources sector in this country has been growing strongly. Private sector investment in our economy during our period in office totals $919 billion, and investment as a percentage of GDP is at its highest level in 40 years—all of that in the environment where we have been implementing a resource rent tax and carbon pricing. That indicates enormous faith among the international business community in investing in this country because it is a great place to invest. We have an opposition who want to talk our economy down every day, tell untruths about the economy and junk the economy for their own base political purposes. But the Leader of the Opposition was shown up on 7:30 last night, where he indicated what an ignorant person he was, that he did not care about the facts and that he would say anything and do anything for political advantage.

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