George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Is the minister aware that New Zealand is forecast to have a deeper and longer recession than Australia? Why is it that it has only forecast five per cent unemployment while Australia is now looking at the horrendous unemployment level of 8.5 per cent? Is that not further proof that Labor has lost control of the nation’s economy? Minister, when are you going to stop hiding behind the global financial crisis? When is the Australian government going to accept responsibility for Australian unemployment?