Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

If there is any doubt that the stimulus and our strategy is working then we should just go through a few figures. Senator Brandis, I am glad you have come back in for this. Not once did you raise these figures. The retail trade figures for March are up 2.2 per cent. That is happening nowhere else in the world. Westfield reported figures that were up by 1.5 per cent in March. The figures from the rest of the world were down. We have some good figures on unemployment which you have just discounted. The stimulus package is working. The government’s strategy is working. Senators on the other side of the chamber should stop the scare campaign. (Time expired)