Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

You do not want to invest in health, you do not want to invest in education, you do not want to support moving the poorest workers out of the tax system and you do not want to invest in a whole range of things that are priorities for Labor governments. What I do not expect is this talking down of Australia, talking down our success as a nation in keeping people employed during the global financial crisis. They talk down our success: look at our debt as a proportion of our GDP compared with other nations, where in many instances it is 10 times higher.

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