Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Sometimes you do not know where to start with this mob. This is just more voodoo economics from those opposite, who want to deny the undeniable. Let us just go through it very, very simply, because today’s results would not have been possible without economic stimulus. It is the case—and it is demonstrated in the figures today—that the growth that is there has been pushed by very strong consumption. And where did that strong household consumption come from, if not from the economic stimulus and the cash payments to pensioners, to families and so on?

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