Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

firstly, 20 Reserve Bank warnings—they do not like this; secondly, and on top of that, we had inflation running at a 16-year high when the government was elected; thirdly, we had 10 interest rate rises in a row, delivering us the second-highest interest rates in the developed world.

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