Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment Participation) Share this | Hansard source

Terry McCrann went on to say—and he is quite right in making this point:

This is not a good time to undermine the profitability of our banks.

What we have had from the opposition throughout the last six weeks has been an effort to undermine the economic performance of this nation and to call into question the financial institutions of this country in order to score cheap political points. That is what has occurred in the response by the opposition to the global financial crisis.

The one thing we will not do is listen to the architects of Work Choices about what we should do for workers. The last thing we will ever do is ask those who designed Work Choices—

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