Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

They could ask a question about the levels of debt in this country, because they like to talk about it all the time, and they would be told that we have one of the lowest net debt ratios to GDP in the OECD. They could ask about our credit rating and they would be told that we have a AAA credit rating across all three of the agencies. They could ask about the unemployment rate and they would find out that we are at 5.5 per cent, well below the OECD average. They could ask about job creation. Those vandals over there were happy to see 200,000 Australians thrown on to the scrap heap, onto the dole, but this government stood firm during the global financial crisis and supported Australian families. We have, according to the February— (Time expired)