Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

We are debating here this evening the Labor Party’s so-called economic stimulus. It is also, as other speakers have mentioned, now 12 months to the day since the Labor Party were elected to government. Symbolically the Prime Minister is not here today. He is overseas on one of his trips. The APEC meeting is probably a significant trip in itself, but when you add up all his trips, nothing could be more symbolic than his not being here at work.