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

We actually got to the inner margin of what you set as the benchmark. Can I just say that, in this entire debate about economic credibility, assumptions and the budget, what we see is a federal opposition which is the least economically literate federal opposition we have seen for decades. On the Liberal Party, we also have some interesting comments about the level of literacy and the question of financial conservatism. My attention was drawn to a comment recently, contained in the Sydney Morning Herald, which refers to the economic literacy of the Leader of the Opposition. This is what was said in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald on 10 April—

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