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

The Leader of the Opposition has given nine major media interviews in the past 24 hours since becoming Leader of the Opposition. He has not once mentioned health. He has not once mentioned education. He has talked an awful lot about himself, but there has been no new significant policy initiative to deal either with the economic problems coming from the international crisis or indeed with the wider interests of working people in this country. The Rudd government is committed to looking after the interests of working people and to investing for the long-term future of the Australian economy.

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