Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition has lost any claim whatsoever to economic credibility. When BHP sheds 6,000 or 7,000 jobs around the world and half of them are shed in Australia, that is our fault; that has nothing to do with their international trading position—nothing to do with any of the economic factors! What nonsense. What economic illiteracy. For some sort of cheap political point, you make those sorts of claims. You know it is a nonsense. You know that we are in the middle of a global financial crisis. You know that we have made every effort to try and get in front of the curve.