Andrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Chairman of the Coalition Policy Development Committee) Share this | Hansard source

We have just heard it again. We had this same problem a few days ago. You have to give it to the member for Lindsay, he is the master of spin. He did not refer for one second to the subject of the debate, which is the urgent need for the government to rein in spending in the face of events unfolding in Europe. Former Reserve Bank board member and noted Australian economist Warwick McKibbin recently declared that the government has put the economy in the eye of a perfect storm.

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