House debates

Thursday, 9 February 2023

Questions without Notice

Interest Rates

2:28 pm

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

I thank the shadow Treasurer for his question, but I do express some disappointment on behalf of the Treasurer for the impossibility there is of him getting a question. I do raise this issue just to encourage those opposite to give the Treasurer a crack. Angus Taylor, the shadow Treasurer, in his own words, said in September:

It is very clear that the world has changed dramatically even in the past few months … We've seen a rapid shift to an inflationary environment. Interest rates are bucking decades of downward trends.

On that occasion, in that particular opinion piece in the Australian, the shadow Treasurer—perhaps for the first time since he entered this chamber all those years ago—has got one thing right.

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