Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I hear again the avalanche of intellectual honesty coming from those opposite! How much stimulus do they support? One moment they say that it is about $15 billion, then at a different moment they say it might be $20 billion. I looked at the member for Aston’s statement earlier today where he talked about $20 billion plus, because that is Treasury’s estimate of the cost of the proposal that he has put forward. His proposal is for small business not to pay the superannuation guarantee levy for two years. That would therefore be met by the taxpayer. Therefore, when you put all of their costed stimulus packages together—

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