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

Australia’s stimulus strategy has worked. It has been timely, targeted and incredibly effective. It has helped keep the lights on in thousands of businesses and it has helped keep thousands of workers in jobs. We are entitled to know which part of that picture the coalition does not support. What are those opposite really about in terms of measures that they are prepared to support? They say that Australia did not need a stimulus package. We now see that even the coalition must be beginning to understand that action was needed. They have said that the government has done too much. They are now trying to tell us that the government has been spending too much. They have been opposed to action all along, and we now see a divided opposition. (Time expired)