Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The RBA cuts which the minister's colleagues are lining up to criticise—and I refer him to their public statements—are a direct result of the economy's weakness under this government and the coalition's failure to provide complementary fiscal stimulus, as the RBA has called for on multiple occasions. Can the minister explain why his colleagues are so anxious to criticise the RBA instead of the government doing its job, and that is to take action to turn the economy around?