Stephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

At the request of Senator McGauran, I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes and commends the honesty of the Deputy Prime Minister (Ms Gillard) for saying on ABC TV Breakfast on 7 November 2008, ‘When we put the Budget together in May, obviously we weren’t predicting, and no one was predicting, the global financial crisis which then emerged’;

(b)

notes the contradictory statement made by Senator Conroy when during question time of 27 November 2008 he said, ‘In the May budget the government was acutely aware of the risks posed by the global financial crisis’;

(c)

notes, with concern, the Rudd Labor Government’s lack of coherent economic strategy in the face of the global financial crisis; and

(d)

calls on the Government to level with the people of Australia and concentrate on managing the Australian economy instead of managing the 24-hour news cycle.

Question put: