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

Were that the case I daresay I would not come into this place each day because the debates we have here are along the following lines: a tide of negativity versus positive proposals for the future. That is the debate we are having here. I say to the Leader of the Opposition: why is it on this question of response to the global economic recession those opposite have such a thin veneer of credibility? It is this: those opposite, led by the member for Higgins, who will soon be down the front here leading the opposition—

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