Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

This important point needs to be made about economic management because it relates specifically to the bill and to the issue of competition policy—of creating competition in the economy and creating circumstances in which businesses can compete against each other. The point that I make is that, when the coalition was in government, we dealt with the issue of inflation; we dealt with the United States recession; we dealt with the Asian economic crisis. That was the reality of all of those economic threats posed to us when we were in government.

See this speech in context