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

I will accept service on your behalf, Mr Speaker. That question reminds us, of course, that there is, as the bank has identified, a need to make sure that the policies we have at the present time bear downwards on inflation. That, of course, invites yet another examination of the industrial relations policy of the Australian Labor Party, because the industrial relations policy of the Australian Labor Party, as identified by Econtech, would be bad for the level of inflation in Australia and consequently lead to an increase of 1.4 per cent in interest rates.

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