Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is again to the Prime Minister, and I refer to the RBA table that I tabled after my last question. Based on that table, will the Prime Minister confirm that official Reserve Bank figures demonstrate the proportion of household income consumed by mortgage interest payments has increased by 70 per cent since interest rates started rising in 2002?

John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition may have tabled the table, but the Prime Minister has not read the table yet.

Opposition Members:

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David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Members are holding up question time.