Greg Combet (Charlton, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change) Share this | Hansard source

The response by the member for Cowan to the question about the effect of the stimulus was the following: ‘Well, with that, there has been a lot of money pumped in and people have spent it. There’s no doubt about that. I have been to local retailers in my area, and they say that people over in Western Australia have been spending. They’ve been spending for a long time now, even recently.’ So the journalist asked: ‘So Kevin Rudd can claim a bit of the credit for keeping us out of recession?’ The member for Cowan went on to respond as follows: ‘Well’—

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