Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I have nothing further to add to my previous answer. On the question of what the government accepts responsibility for, we accept responsibility for our decisions, we accept responsibility for managing the Australian economy and we accept responsibility for tackling the problems that exist in the economy, including problems that we inherited from the previous government, most importantly the serious inflation problem that we are dealing with. I will leave it up to others to comment on whether or not the responses of the government to those issues are the appropriate responses. That is the right of the opposition and commentators. We accept responsibility for the decisions we make and I am happy to debate any of the merits or alleged lack of merits of any of those decisions.

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