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

Surprisingly missing from the economic narrative of those opposite, which is about talking the Australian economy down, is any reference to capital expenditure data from last week, any reference to today’s balance of trade data or any reference to the fact that, in their period of office—if I recall the number correctly from the Minister for Trade—there were 72 consecutive monthly trade deficits.

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