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

I saw the member’s remark earlier today because somebody mentioned it to me. If you look at the context of it, the member for Macquarie has been misrepresented by the Leader of the Opposition. I ask the Leader of the Opposition to have a look at everything I said in the last election campaign; it will enlighten him a great deal. What I said in the last election campaign, what the Treasurer said—and it is absolutely the truth—is that interest rates under a coalition government will always be lower than they are under a Labor government. I would have thought that the Leader of the Opposition understood—

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