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

Mr Speaker, as I said yesterday, me thinks he doth protest too much. The fountain of negativity on the Australian economy, the Leader of the Opposition, will not pass an hour or a day, in this place or beyond, without taking the opportunity to talk the Australian economy down, to talk negatively about what is going on, to seize any piece of data and to twist it in order to convey a negative narrative against the Australian economy. I say to the honourable member: why doesn’t he stand with the parliament and with the nation at large and celebrate the fact that Australia is now the fastest growing economy of all the major advanced economies? Why does he not stand at the dispatch box and celebrate the fact that we have the second lowest unemployment among the major advanced economies? Why does he not stand at the dispatch box and celebrate the fact that we have the lowest net debt of the major advanced economies?

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