Steve Hutchins (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

and took with him a number of your own colleagues, Australians were spending 40c extra for every $100 they earned. Get that in your minds: when Labor lost power in 1996 people were saving $6.50 for every $100 they earned; when you left office, after 11 years of neglect, working families were spending 40c more for every $100 that they earned. When Howard took office in 1996—