Sam Dastyari (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

if it was not for the rampant increase in government spending, economic growth for this quarter would have been zero. That makes the claims from the finance minister, made just before the winter recess, that the government was 'heading in the right direction' when it comes 'to implementing our plan for stronger growth, more jobs and repairing the budget' so ridiculous. It is so ridiculous that at its two-year mark—its second birthday, for which I seem to remember the gift is wool—