John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition can gesticulate, the Leader of the Opposition can yell and scream during question time, but that yelling and screaming does not reach the ears of the 1.8 million Australians now in work compared with those who were in work when he last sat on the treasury side of the Speaker. The Leader of the Opposition’s rhetoric cannot alter the fact that—

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