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

Senator Bullock, you must have different figures from mine. I am advised that growth over the past year was 2.3 per cent, which is up from 1.9 per cent in the last year of the Labor government. I know you asked me to disregard quarterly figures but I think that is a little unrealistic when we have the most recent quarterly figures available to us. The most recent quarterly growth rate in Australia is 0.9 per cent—