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

30 June 1999, ‘Injustice Day’! ‘Injustice Day’, the day that the government reformed taxation! It is all very easy to sit back here in 2007 and say ‘I am an economic conservative’. It is very easy to say that now, but when the hard work was being done reforming this economy in 1999, he was not just off the pace; he was off the planet. He was off the planet with this kind of rhetoric.

The important thing in relation to economic policy is this: it is not what you see with hindsight but what you see in the future.

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