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

The member over there just said that the opposition warned us about this in April—is that right? Well, this is what the Leader of the Opposition had to say on 30 September at a press conference:

There is nobody that would have predicted these events a year ago or even a few months ago.

That is what he said. And this is what he said on 1 October:

… as recently as March people felt … the worst had passed. But it has got a lot worse and the events of the last few weeks would not have been predicted a few months ago.

So what did he say last night? What did he say in his address to the nation? This is what he said—

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