Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Let me tell you, 10 years ago we did not talk about unemployment rates at five per cent, because unemployment rates were up at 10 per cent. And 10 years ago the current mortgage interest rate, at 7.8 per cent, would have been considered unattainable. Let me remind the very voluble Leader of the Opposition, ‘The Skipper’, and his crew on Gilligan’s Island over there: the member for Gellibrand, Mary Ann; The Professor, the member for Griffith. And whom will we christen Gilligan? I think the member for Lilley. He has got to be Gilligan, over on that—

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