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

Well, so here we go again. The global financial crisis and the global recession never happened—did not happen—and therefore there was no need for a fiscal stimulus and no need for the actions that the government took which saved our country from recession. This is acknowledged by every responsible economic authority in the global economy, but it is not acknowledged by those opposite because there is no length they will not go to to talk down our economy, to talk down its performance. They are not proud of the fact that there has been just under a million jobs created since we have been in power.

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