Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

The senator clearly has great difficulty when he is relying upon pre-prepared questions without listening to the answers that have been given in the chamber. This government has made very clear its attitude to what has caused the economic crisis that the world is now engulfed in. It is the neoliberalist policies which those opposite have championed that have led to a situation where we now face the worst crisis since the Great Depression. This crisis was created by an ideology of unrestrained greed, which was championed by those opposite and is of course maintained by them even today. They have obviously learnt nothing and have forgotten nothing in terms of their experiences. We now have a situation where they are seeking to defend a failed ideology that has created untold misery and suffering around the world. (Time expired)