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

This is a continuation of the smear campaign against the Prime Minister and me because it is a fact that Mr Grant received no special assistance and received no special benefit whatsoever—zero. We took the same steps to assist him as we took to assist other car dealers and certainly in some cases the evidence indicates much more effort went into those cases. That was the situation at the time because, as I said, it was a difficult time. This is what Mr Delaney had to say the other morning:

There is $8 billion worth of car plan financing used every year. There was a prospect that 50 per cent of it had just disappeared.

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