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

The government relies on the independent advice of the Treasury as it has done in the past, as it will do in the future and as governments of all persuasions have until this most recent opposition has decided to release a series of attacks directed at independent agencies—the Treasury, the Reserve Bank and, most stunningly last week, the Statistician over the unemployment data when the member for Wentworth mysteriously went missing in western Sydney, as he described yesterday. Well, the member for North Sydney said yesterday—

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