Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Families and Payments) Share this | Hansard source

Get up and defend it. Tell us what happened when Margaret Thatcher tried it and Ronald Reagan tried it. What we've actually seen—

Government members interjecting—

Funnily enough, the International Monetary Fund doesn't agree with you. We wouldn't want to take any notice of them! You, of course, know better than the International Monetary Fund! You know better than the OECD! Well, actually, these big international organisations are making it absolutely clear that trickle-down economics does not work. We've seen workers' wages—

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