Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security) Share this | Hansard source

My question again is to the Prime Minister and is also on the economy. I refer the Prime Minister to his target to achieve average economic growth of more than four per cent during the decade. Prime Minister, with non-farm GDP reaching just 2.6 per cent over the last year and zero productivity growth over the last 2½ years, is it not implausible to blame the drought, as you did yesterday, for the government’s failure to come anywhere near its growth target?

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