Chris Hayes (Fowler, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

All those people over there from Queensland, whose electorates were very much damaged, sat here on a party basis and voted against the efforts of the Australian Labor Party to rebuild Queensland. Those members have got to hang their heads in shame.

It was only yesterday you had the International Monetary Fund coming out and paying credit to this government for bringing the budget back to surplus as quickly as we have. You have also got Standard and Poor's coming out and congratulating the government. One simple thing that those opposite should be able to understand is that this is also the first time in Australian history that all three rating agencies have given this country AAA status. It does not matter how far they want to go back, they cannot find that at any time they have occupied the Treasury benches, because it has only happened now.

We will be working to deliver for working families. We will not be taking care of mining magnates who are seeking preselection for the Liberal Party; we will work to look after working families. (Time expired)

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