Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for O'Connor for his question. Our plan for a stronger economy is also well known. It has come through in some of the more recent data. We had some promising retail sales data come out today, which was above market expectations. Clearly there is hope out there that we are going to have a good Christmas for retail despite the best endeavours of Labor. We also had a pretty good Dun and Bradstreet business expectations survey—

Mr Champion interjecting—

Mr Husic interjecting—

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