Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

But, secondly, we must attend to the skills crisis in the Australian economy left to us by the Liberals. You cannot go out and talk to anyone in this country, any employer, large or small, anywhere in the country, who does not talk to you about a skills crisis. But nothing was put in place to deal with this precisely at the time when urgent action was required, when inflation was on the march. When inflation was on the march, what were you doing? I know what you were doing, because we talked about it a bit. You were out there playing tag team with Peter Costello. That is what you were doing. That is what the shadow minister was up to.

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