House debates Questions without Notice
Interest Rates
Kevin Rudd Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition
2:25 pm
My question is again to the Prime Minister, and I refer to the RBA table that I tabled after my last question. Based on that table, will the Prime Minister confirm that official Reserve Bank figures demonstrate the proportion of household income consumed by mortgage interest payments has increased by 70 per cent since interest rates started rising in 2002?
John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
The Leader of the Opposition may have tabled the table, but the Prime Minister has not read the table yet.
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