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

Senator Cormann interrupts, ‘It’s all your fault.’ Well, Senator, what is clear—and you may not understand on that side—is that we are in the middle of a global financial crisis. All the economies in the world are suffering. I am not sure if you are aware, but the unemployment rate in the US rose to 8.1 per cent last month—more than 500,000 people, half a million people, in the US are losing their jobs every month. These are global problems and we are not immune, and they are problems that this government is tackling, front and centre.