David Bradbury (Lindsay, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer ) Share this | Hansard source

I have three letters for you: AAA. That is what we have got, a AAA credit rating from the three major ratings agencies—that is our record. That is what we delivered; that is what you never could deliver in office.

On top of that I hear the Leader of the Opposition out there saying, 'We're going to create jobs. In the first five years we will create a million jobs.' That is what we have already done. We delivered it—just under a million jobs in the time we have been in office, no thanks to the Leader of the Opposition. We all remember—he might not remember—when the global financial crisis struck. Talk about stepping up to the plate, as the member for North Sydney says—that is what we did. We came into this place and we voted for the stimulus package. The Leader of the Opposition—I know people say he is asleep at the wheel; he was asleep on the lounge in his office after having a few drinks up at the parliamentary dining room.

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