Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is addressed to the Prime Minister and relates to the government’s undertakings persistently in the last election campaign, which are still on their website, to keep interest rates at record lows. Has the Prime Minister seen comments by mother of five Debbie Bridgman of Western Sydney? On 3 August, the Sydney Morning Herald reported her as saying:

“When someone says that, you put your trust in them and feel a certain level of security” ...

“We started plans [for the extension] a year and a half ago, knowing we could afford to do that without expecting interest rates to continue to rise.”

Does the Prime Minister agree with his parliamentary secretary Malcolm Turnbull that people like Debbie Bridgman have overdramatised the three rate rises since the election?

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