Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Leader of the Opposition be required immediately, for a period not exceeding five minutes to:

(1)

condemn and retract the irresponsible and reckless attack on the independence of the Governor of the Reserve Bank by the Member for Canning this morning, when he said “the fact that Glenn Stevens has been caught out he put up the interest rates before the election, during the election, when the rest of the world were bringing down interest rates. And now, in a way to cover the Government’s inept behaviour, they are bringing down interest rates at probably the most rapid rate Australia has ever seen. It really is chaotic, shambolic”;

(2)

condemn and retract the unprecedented attack on the truthfulness of the Secretary of the Treasury by Senator Abetz yesterday; and

(3)

apologise for and retract his own reckless and irresponsible attack on the Secretary of the Treasury in Question Time on Tuesday at a time of global financial crisis.

In the last three days we have seen three unprecedented attacks from the Liberal Party of Australia—

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