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

These are very serious issues for the country which were not taken seriously by those opposite when they were in power. They were not taken seriously at all—12 years of neglect. We are dealing with these issues, and we will not be deflected by their economic vandalism in the Senate as we deal with them, because this country is dealing with the most complex set of global economic factors in over 25 years—

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