Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

There are a lot of interjections from the very negative Liberal/National Party opposition—a very divided opposition, I might say. They proudly opposed the Rudd Labor government’s decisive actions to introduce two stimulus packages—two stimulus packages that we know, on all the evidence that has been published, has helped cushion the Australian economy from the worst impacts of the worst economic crisis the world has seen in some 75 years. We do know that, in Australia, unlike most comparable countries, figures on retail sales, employment, construction, housing activity—a whole raft of evidence—show the positive impact that the Rudd Labor government’s decisive actions in protecting the Australian economy from the very worst of this economic downturn have had. They have been very effective. And we know those measures were opposed by the— (Time expired)