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

I will take the interjection from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, who is again comparing Australia to Greece. How irresponsible! All of those employees and business firms who do want to see confidence in the economy will not thank the opposition for their continued attempt to trash talk the Australian economy. This opposition, more than any opposition that I have seen, have been prepared to put their political interests ahead of the national interests and have been prepared to talk down the economy, regardless of the risk to jobs, regardless of the risk to growth, regardless of the risk to confidence, simply because they believe it is in their political interest. The reality is that Australia continues to outperform most other economies and has grown at around three times the OECD national average.