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

The shadow Treasurer may not have been listening, but I have just been dealing with his question. I have been referring him to the words of the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, where he dealt with this in detail when we launched the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook. What I would say to the shadow Treasurer is, rather than bluster in a desperate attempt to pretend that the opposition has got anything like an economic policy, what he might be better off doing is explaining to the Australian people the acute contradiction between his age-of-entitlement speech and what he said about the baby bonus. And he can explain to the Australian people—

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