Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Sinodinos is leaving the chamber. He cannot wait for your third question, Senator—or even your second question. Gross debt as a percentage of GDP is 18.4 per cent in 2011-12 and 2012-13. I take from that question an acknowledgement, which is an unusual one from the opposition, that there was in fact a global financial crisis. The opposition opposed the government's stimulus package, opposed the action that saved 200,000 jobs. One thing we know from that decision and from so many others is that it is the people on this side of the chamber who care about Australian jobs; it is the Labor Party who care about jobs, not those opposite. (Time expired)