Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

This is centrally on the question. The Leader of the Opposition tries to create this fantasy land to pretend that the global financial crisis and its consequences for the government's budget did not happen. It is a furphy. It is the sort of thing one would only put forward if one had no understanding of or capacity to deal with the facts and no interest in economics—and, unfortunately, that is the Leader of the Opposition.

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