Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

In his uncontrollable arrogance, he reckons businesses are wrong about skill shortages, the ABS is wrong about inflation, the Treasury is wrong about unsustainable spending, the RBA is wrong about capacity constraints, the BCA is wrong about the Liberal’s failure to invest and the AiG is wrong about poor productivity growth. The shadow Treasurer is so out of touch that his only policy for inflation, productivity and skills is to do nothing. That is no way to run a modern economy. That is a risky and dangerous approach that gave us the highest inflation and the worst productivity in 16 years. This government is putting in place infrastructure, like the high-speed broadband fibre-to-the-node network, to deliver—