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

For the benefit of the honourable member, a number of those jobs have been lost in Queensland as well. The point I make to the honourable member is that the global economic crisis is directly impacting on Queensland and every state in the country, and for anyone leading the Liberal National Party to say that that effect on local jobs in Queensland is peripheral shows how out of touch the Liberal National Party has become.

What is the difference here? You have a government embarked on an economic strategy to see Australia through this global economic crisis, and you have the Liberal and National parties embarked on a political strategy to take political advantage of the global crisis. That is the difference. We stand by our strategy; you continue to prosecute yours.

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