Thread by @MettaBhavana1

@MrKRudd "This smug bloke made a political career of rubbishing Labor’s world-beating GFC response, which avoided recession & saved livelihoods. Now his budget figures have 5-times the deficit and 5-times as much debt, he is seeking to erase his past. Not if I can help it."

4 Feb 2009. "Opposition to vote against Rudd's $42 billion package" SMH

@KevinRudd ...with Murdoch’s blessing, [Morrison] expects Australians will simply forget how [Liberals] tried to wreck the economy by opposing stimulus back then [in 2008-9]. They won’t.

KEVIN RUDD: 4 Feb 2009. "I'm not going to haul up the white flag, the Libs have said recession is inevitable, I'm not in the defeat game, I'm in for throwing everything at this."

WAYNE SWAN: 4 Feb 2009. [Labor treasurer] "This is not a time for half measures; it's a time to be bold."

JOE HOCKEY: [Liberal shadow treasurer] 4 Feb 2009. "We will not, under any circumstances, be in a position where the Government rams through the biggest spending initiative in Australian history..."

MALCOLM TURNBULL: [Liberal opposition leader] 4 Feb 2009. "The Opposition will vote against this [GFC stimulus] package in the House and in the Senate... The finances of the Commonwealth are not a magic pudding. Everything has to paid for at some time."

MALCOLM TURNBULL: [Liberal opposition leader] 4 Feb 2009. "Think of the faces, look into the eyes of those school children that come to Parliament every day, and remember that as these debts are piled up, billion upon billion, it is they, who will have to pay them off."

Transcript: "The [Liberal] Opposition says no to [Labor's] $42b [GFC] stimulus package." Broadcast on The World Today #ABCRN - Wednesday, 4 February , 2009
Reporter: Lyndal Curtis abc.net.au/worldtoday/con…