Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

I am very proud to be a member of a government that has allowed people to have a job and to buy their own home. There is no doubt about the comparison between those opposite and us. They are happy to come into this place proud of the fact that they had 17 per cent interest rates—22 per cent for business loans—but those people are the ones who sent small businesses broke. They put people on the dole and they hurt Australians. Those Australians still remember. To those Australians who do not remember let me say this: think about the comparison between interest rates—17 per cent under Labor and 8.3 per cent under the coalition.