Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

As the Prime Minister reminds me, the member for McMahon struggles when it comes to international countries, because he put out a press release, about following Labor's lead and supporting the Varghese report, which said, 'We support increasing trade between Australia and Indonesia.' The only problem was that the Varghese report was about Australia and India. That was nearly as good as the member for Chifley, who thought Africa was a country.

The final thing I would say is the thing about the Prime Minister, his ministers and his government is that, when we go overseas, we talk Australia up. But the member for Fenner, when he writes about Australia overseas, he talks it down. He went and said to the investors of the world, through the New York Times: 'Don't come here and invest in the Australian economy. Don't support regional jobs. Don't support Australia's growth record. Forget about what The Economist has said about how "Aussie rules the world" and "Australia rules the world". Forget all about that,' because they want to talk down the Australian economy, whereas the Liberal and National parties talk Australia up and we have a proud record on which to do so.

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