Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Please, Senator Fifield, correct me through the chair if I am wrong: I think it was that he was incompetent in economics and he would not have him as his deputy. Then Mr Abbott went on to say something about condemning the Rudd stimulus package—of which $42 billion went to infrastructure—that we should have the same as New Zealand.

Now his deputy, Ms Bishop, said we should just sit back and wait—even the deputy could not have a decent contribution to the debate. But let us go back to New Zealand, shall we? No stimulus package—beauty! No worries: five consecutive quarters in recession. Mr Abbott said, ‘Let’s do what New Zealand did’.