Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Competitiveness) Share this | Hansard source

On the specific issue of budget policy, we are achieving this rapid fiscal consolidation and we are doing it ahead of every major advanced country on earth. We will always put jobs first. We will not go down the coalition pathway of recession, which the opposition leader recommended. He said that he did not know what was wrong with going down the New Zealand path, which—

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