Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

The member is absolutely wrong about that and I am quite happy to debate that very matter—in here, outside, anywhere you want, including with the shadow housing minister—about the plagiarism that occurred and that I reported in this place yesterday. She was caught absolutely red-handed and red-faced. That is her problem, and do not try to cover up for it.

When we go to the different positions of the opposition leader on predicting the global financial crisis, he was saying this could not have been predicted a year ago or even a few months ago, and then he said on 15 October:

With the benefit of hindsight, Governments should have acted a lot earlier. Regrettably, Mr Rudd’s Government missed the warning signs at the beginning of the year …

This is a global financial crisis that ‘nobody could have predicted’, according to the same man, ‘even a few months ago’. So there is his position on anticipating the global financial crisis.

We are debating the Economic Security Strategy. What did the Leader of the Opposition declare on that? He said when it was announced:

… we are not going to argue about the composition of the package or quibble about it. It has our support. It will provide a stimulus to the economy, that’s for certain.

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