Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I reject the assertion that's contained in the question. I reject the assertion completely. Once again, this is a slur against someone who was named, indeed, the world's greatest finance minister during the global financial crisis. The person who was Treasurer during the 30 years of consecutive economic growth that was created by the Hawke-Keating economic reforms and saw us through the global financial crisis is eminently qualified to chair a superannuation board, as he has done in very recent times.

Those opposite speak about accountability and transparency. The point is very simple: they ask about transparency. When it comes to the ABCC, we went to not just one election; we went to three elections saying that we would abolish the ABCC. I know that those opposite might find the idea unusual that you do what you said you would do during an election campaign—

and you receive a mandate for it from the Australian people to do it. That is precisely what we will do. We will go through our election commitments and we will tick them off one by one, because that is what governments of integrity do.

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