Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Australia faces a great challenge on productivity into the medium-term future, and the opposition has had the luxury for the last 18 months of nobody treating them seriously. But times are changing. The member for Higgins is departing, an election is coming over the horizon within 18 months and it is long overdue—

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